Six on Dr. Martin Luther King: The FBI Once Sent Martin Luther King An Anonymous Letter Pressuring Him To Kill Himself; A Black Feminist’s Response to Attacks on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy; Learning from King’s Last Campaign; The activists cont
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Martin Luther King Jr. And The FBI
"Immoral intelligence strategies have a way of becoming classified and then declassified decades later after the fact, when the parties responsible for injustice have already died. This case is no different.
According to Insider, the “suicide letter” — as it’s come to be known — first surfaced in 1975. Filled with personal insults, barely-veiled threats, and oddly moralistic lecturing, it paints a dark picture of its sender — who appears to be encouraging King to kill himself.
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At the time, the FBI’s infamous director J. Edgar Hoover made no secret of his desire to bring King down and discredit his work during the civil rights movement. According to Stanford University’s King Institute, the FBI had been investigating the activist since the Montgomery bus boycotts of 1955.
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The efforts to neutralize Martin Luther King as an effective leader of the civil rights movement came at a precipitous moment for the man. By that point, he was leading a national movement that began with impoverished black Americans and then spread to people of all races.
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"The goal was to lead a massive protest in Washington D.C. demanding that Congress prioritize a massive anti-poverty package that included, among other things, a commitment to full employment, a guaranteed annual income, and more low-income housing. And they wanted to pay for it by ending the Vietnam War.
“We believe the highest patriotism demands the ending of the war,” King said, “and the opening of a bloodless war to final victory over racism and poverty.” Assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968 while organizing Black sanitation workers, King never made it to the Poor People’s March, but thousands did protest in Washington to honor King’s memory and to pursue his vision.
That vision remains to be realized. Today, 140 million Americans — over 40 percent of us — remain poor or low-income. As in King’s day, Black and brown Americans are especially impacted, but so are millions of poor whites.
Our country may be polarized by party. But the truth is, we have more in common to fight for than what divides us.
A December survey by the Center for American Progress (CAP) found that 52 percent of American voters across party lines reported experiencing a serious economic problem in the past year. This tracks with other research, including the Federal Reserve Board’s finding that 40 percent of Americans don’t have the money to cover a $400 emergency."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is the greatest sheer spectacle of hypocrisy and historical duplicity of the year, as Black misleaders take center stage to claim his mandate and mission on behalf of a corporate party.
“While Dr. King rejected an alliance with the ‘triple evils,’ Black Democratic misleaders describe their deal with the Devil as smart, ‘strategic’ politics.”
The birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated each year at thousands of events in literally every U.S. city, yet the martyred human rights leader’s political philosophy is totally absent from the agenda of today’s Black Misleadership Class, a grasping cabal of hustlers and opportunists that have grown fat and infinitely corrupt through their collaboration with “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” Their “freedom train” was the Democratic Party, the half of the corporate electoral duopoly that allowed colored folks to ride as first class passengers – as long as they didn’t question the schedule or the destination. The budding Black misleaders hopped on board the Democratic Party express to the boardrooms of corporate power at about the same time that Dr. King was making his definitive break with the evil “triplets’” infernal machinery, including both corporate parties.
In his April 4, 1967 “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” speech at New York City’s Riverside Church, Dr. King burned his bridges with the nation’s top Democrat, despite President Lyndon Johnson’s indispensable role in pushing civil and voting rights and anti-poverty bills through Congress and championing an affirmative action rationale that -- as spelled out in his 1965 speech at Howard University -- was a principled endorsement of reparations for crimes committed against Black people by the U.S. society and State. Johnson went farther than any previous U.S. president in acknowledging Black American citizenship rights and grievances, even as the Republican half of the electoral duopoly was preparing to assume the role of White Man’s Party through Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy.” Yet, Dr. King, a proponent of peace and democratic socialism, understood that the way to the “Promised Land” was not through Black collaboration with the evils inherent in capitalism and its ceaseless, predatory wars. “I have come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house,” King told his friend, Harry Belafonte."
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