マット・マクゴリーのインスタグラム(mattmcgorry) - 10月6日 04時43分

I absolutely loved this book. The way it's written is incredibly captivating and really helped contextualize the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in ways that we are rarely taught about. As many anti-racist activists say, MLK's legacy has been "sanitized" in a way that is too easily digestible for people today. The way that MLK is taught in schools today is with a focus on "love" and "peace", but without connecting the fact that these things cannot truly exist to their fullest level without concerted effort and continual pressure to changing biased power structures. And that in the act of trying to change these things, most of the world will be against you. Even today.
FYI- "Doc" is MLK, and the war is the Vietnam War. "Now, Doc is off and running. He quickly links the war- indeed the very forces of militarism- to racism and poverty...He speaks about the rioters who, in answer to his plea for nonviolence, question America's own unchecked violence in Vietnam.
'Their questions hit home,' he says, 'and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today- my own government.'
*The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.* The phrase will send shock waves through the media...'A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift,' he claims, 'is approaching spiritual death.'...The attacks from the mainstream press are unrelenting: 'Dr. King's Error' is the title of the New York Times editorial. 'The political strategy of uniting the peace movement and the civil rights movement could very well be disastrous for both causes,' claims the paper before calling Doc's approach "wasteful and self-defeating." "Exactly one year ago today, Doc...denounced President Johnson's escalating war in Vietnam. Since then, a national poll indicates that nearly three-quarters of the American people have turned against Doc, and 57 percent of his own people consider him irrelevant." This was the last year of his life.

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