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Nee, hij haalt vooral naast racisme - niet 'systematisch racisme' - het feit aan dat armoede en oorlog de grootste bedreigingen zijn voor de mensheid:
The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled and feed the unfed. The well-off and the secure have too often become the indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds, and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern of “the least of these.
The first step in the world-wide war against poverty is passionate commitment.... The wealthy nations of the world must promptly initiate a massive, sustained Marshall Plan for Asia, Africa and South America. If they would allocate just two percent of their gross national product annually for a period of ten or twenty years for the development of the underdeveloped nations, mankind would go a long way toward conquering the ancient enemy, poverty....
... In the final analysis the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied together. They entered the same mysterious gateway of human birth, into the same adventure of mortal life.
All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasure of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed.... We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women....
In a real sense, all life in interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother’s keepers because we are our brother’s brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
A final problem that mankind must solve in order to survive in the world house that we have inherited is finding an alternative to war and human destruction.... Therefore I suggest that the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence become immediately a subject for study and for serious experimentation in every field of human conflict, by no means excluding the relations between nations.... We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihi lation This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.En als hij over kolonialisme spreekt, is het als een fenomeen dat ten einde is gekomen:
All over the world like a fever, the great masses of people are determined to end the exploitation of their races and lands. They are awake and moving toward their goal like a tidal wave. You can hear them rumbling in every village street, on the docks, in the houses, among the participants, in the churches, and at political meetings. For several centuries the direction of history flowed from the nations and the societies of western Europe out into the rest of the world in “conquests of various sorts. That period, the era of colonialism, is at an end. East is moving West. The earth is being redistributed. Yes, we are “shifting our basic outlooks.En:
The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world-wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brother or together we will be forced to perish as fools....Hoe bewerkstelligen we dat? Door eindeloos te jeremiëren over 'wit privilege' en 'systematisch racisme' - kennelijk ook enkel een wit dingetje? Door ook in 2026 nog vooral alles heel veel door de lens van ras, kleur en verschil te zien?
Denk je dat King het hier ook niet had over radicale zwarten van zijn tijd die niets liever zagen dan segregatie op z'n mildst en uitroeiing van blanken op z'n ergst?
Uit zijn brief uit de gevangenis van Birmingham:
At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist. I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."
I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest.King zag verschil in een Ross Barnett en een Hubert Humprey. Just saying.
Oh: en MLK opereerde in een tijd waarin segregatie, KKK en institutioneel racisme daadwerkelijk bestonden, zeker in het Zuiden. Het manco van velen is dat zij stelselmatig proberen die tijd en die specifieke context te extrapoleren naar nu - en naar andere landen dan de VS - en pretenderen dat sinds het heengaan van King in 1968 er werkelijk niets is veranderd.
In 'Our God is Marching On' ('65) vertelt hij ook precies WIE de aanjagers waren van het institutioneel racisme in het Zuiden van de VS. Niet de witte man. Nee, de
daadwerkelijk gepriviligeerde witte mannen, de 'Southern Aristocracy'. King sprak nooit over hele rassen als schuldig of behept met aangeboren gebreken en vooroordelen, hij sprak over daden en gedrag. Vandaar ook zijn campagne tegen armoede om ook de bittere armoe in het grotendeels blanke Appalachia aan te pakken.
Hele speech hier:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/our-god-marchingEn obligatoir maar veelzeggend:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.Dat gaat niet echt lukken als je in je theorieën al uitgaat van
inherente privileges of gebreken puur op basis van huidskleur en zelfs hele vocabulaires bij elkaar verzint die énkel draaien om kleur: 'wit privilege'; 'zwarte pijn'; 'witte onschuld'.
Mocht je verder nog voorbeelden hebben van King - of Chaney, of Evers - waarin we de leer van woke/CRT terugzien, hoor ik het graag.
[ Bericht 2% gewijzigd door EttovanBelgie op 29-12-2025 21:38:22 ]
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