Perspective: What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about the current civil unrest?
American cities are burning, and once again Martin Luther King Jr.’s name is being invoked as a balm against violence. Protests erupting in 75 cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s public execution in Minneapolis have varied from peaceful multiracial gatherings to sporadic violence that has included police officers brutalizing innocent bystanders, in one instance driving a cruiser into a crowd of demonstrators, and the looting of small and large downtown businesses.
King was the civil rights movement’s greatest political mobilizer and symbol. During the hottest political summers in American history, King recognized violent political rebellions reaching from Birmingham, Ala., to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles as the organic response to racial oppression and structural violence.
The youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 34, King used his global prestige after the Watts rebellion to explain the reasons for the civil disorder sweeping the country. It is worth remembering, now more than ever, that King locked arms with Black Power radical Stokely Carmichael, negotiated with African American gang leaders from Chicago to Memphis and became an active, patient listener to a new generation of multiracial radicals who longed for the fundamental transformation of America’s racial and economic status quo.In 1967, King announced himself as a global revolutionary, and not just through his public repudiation of the Vietnam War.
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