Matthew Rothschild, Progressive Magazine - Jesse Jackson reminded us that King said, just a year to the day before he was assassinated, that a country “finding more security in bombs abroad than bread at home would lead to spiritual death.”
Jesse Jackson reminded us that King saw the linkages so vividly that he described them as the “evil triplets of militarism, materialism, and racism.”
And so Obama’s words ring kind of hollow today, invoking King as he did, on the very day that he’s making plans to go bomb Syria and after all the days he’s dropped drones on people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
As my friend Kevin Alexander Gray put it so pungently, “We’ve gone from I have a dream to I have a drone.”
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
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