“Stop using out-of-context quotes from my father to excuse not working to eradicate racism. His “content of their character” quote lies w/in a full speech; ‘#IHaveADream,’ in which he talks about ending racist #PoliceBrutality & Economic Injustice. So many evoke #MLK to maintain inhumanity & #injustice. But he taught about & worked to eradicate what he called the Triple Evils of Racism, Militarism & Poverty. & he wasn’t a purveyor of negative peace, which seeks order, while injustice remains. That’s not #nonviolence.” - @BerniceaKing ⠀ "A time comes when silence is betrayal. & that time has come” - #MartinLutherKingJr in “Beyond Vietnam” an unequivocal denunciation of America’s involvement in that SE Asian conflict. “He indicated that his commitment to nonviolence left him little choice. “...I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”... In 1967, #BeyondVietnam ignited an uproar...The racists were saying, ‘That going too far. Now he’s gonna tell us how to run our country. Who does he think he is?” - @AfiPlaysBass ⠀ “My father didn’t just happen upon death. White supremacists assassinated him to silence his voice & stop his work of eradicating the “Triple Evils”: Racism, Militarism, Poverty. Those who unrepentantly benefited from these evils railed against their eradication. They still do.” - @BerniceaKing ⠀ “Community service & social justice are not the same thing. #CommunityService is when you volunteer at a homeless shelter. #SocialJustice is when you demand housing for everyone as a human right. Taking MLK’s legacy of social justice & watering it down to community service is a deliberate effort to de-radicalize MLK’s message” - @Bree.Newsome ⠀ 2022 was the deadliest year on record for #PoliceViolence. Police “killed ≥1,176 people.” - @guardian ⠀ “It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words & the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence & indifference of the good people who sit around & say "Wait on time.” - #MLKjr