Over a half a century after his death Martin Luther King, Jr. is now a figure of history. His life and work known primarily in speeches and a holiday that portrays King as a happy warrior marching, singing, and yes making those speeches.
The reality is in his lifetime King was a deeply divisive person in American society.
Martin Luther King Junior was a radical. He believed that America needed a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.” He challenged America’s class system and its racial caste system. He was a strong ally of the nation’s labor union movement. He was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers’ strike. He opposed US militarism and imperialism, especially the country’s misadventure in Vietnam.
Jesus was a radial too, in a sermon from Matthew 3:13-17, Pastor Marben Bland teachers about how Jesus sees more of us than the whitewash that is given to us by the world.
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