profeminist:profeminist:Someone tweeted to me that my father “didn’t offend people.” At the time Dad

profeminist:profeminist:Someone tweeted to me that my father “didn’t offend people.” At the time Daddy was killed, a poll reflected that he was the most hated man in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now & use him to deter justice would likely hate him too if they truly studied #MLK. #MLK50ForwardPeople were offended by him speaking truth to power, calling attention to and engaging nonviolence to end racism, war and poverty. In fact, his ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ was in response to clergy who called him an “outside agitator.” #MLK- @BerniceKing “Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”   -- source link

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