Right now, it's time for the way Black History Fact. In Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Major threat It's for innovative, fashionable sports where check major Threats dot com. And Today's Way Black History Fact is gonna be a little different. And again, I know that Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Day is already passed. But where as last time we did the show, we read I believe a letter from a Birmingham jail as the way Black History Fact, I wanted to kind of double down
on that. I'm gonna share a series of posts on Bernice King's Instagram. Bernice King is the daughter of doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. And she posted something that I think really helps us understand what doctor King stood for and just gives us a moment, a pause and reflection. So bear with me. It's not a traditional, typical way Black History fact, but I think it's it's it's as important. She posted how to commemorate MLK Day as it coincides
with Inauguration Day. Again, I know that this has already passed, but I'm sharing this anyway, she says. I've read posts encouraging people on Mlkday to tune in to King Center's MLK Junior Beloved Community Commemorative Service instead of being attentive to the inauguration. Do both. I certainly understand the desire to tune out rhetoric, ideology, and policies with which we
passionately disagree and which contradict the spirit of the Beloved Community. However, we must pay attention to what President Electrump speaks on that day, even if I transcript and video later. We cannot develop a love centered strategy for addressing language and legislation if we are not also strategic in our listening
and leadership. This is not the time for ignorance. Earlier on Mlkday, she suggests to watch and listen to the commemorative service, where they lift our father's life, legacy and teachings with a focus on a mission they believe is possible, protecting freedom, justice and democracy in the spirit of non violence. King in violence. Contrary to common misconceptions about King and non violence, it is not passive, and it does not
cower before injustice and abusive power. It employs six principles and six steps to plan for doing the following one educate about and eradicate hate and injustice. Without soiling our souls by being hateful and unjust. Two expose the root issues of the social illsness and sustained humane in humane
ideology sorry that are causing our collective instruction. Three entwine our efforts to change or transform systems and institutions that discriminate against and violate people based on race, gender, religion, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, et cetera. Four Engage in creating the beloved community around which my mother, credit Scott King
said quote. The beloved community is a realistic vision of an achievable society, one in which problems in conflict exist, but a resolve peacefully and without bitterness, and the bloved community caring and compassion dry Political part policies that support the worldwide elimination of poverty and hunger and all forms of bigotry and violence. This may seem inconceivable, but we
dig into it more. Leading up to and on MCA, I believe that if a critical massive people join together to move beyond quoting my father to embracing his teachings and comprehensive non violent strategy, we can turn our world right side up. We can cultivate and protect freedom, justice
and democracy. And the next month, let's study MLKA. And then she links to some of his writings, the Letter from a Birmingham Jail which we read last week, which you're welcome to go and download at Civic Epper dot com. She also wants you to check out his writings where do we Go from here, Chaos or Community and the Quest for Peace and Justice, the Nobel Peace Prize lecture. So you can find out this and more at the Kingcenter dot org. And I do want to say that this.
I understand that that Trump has rolled back civil rights protections and so forth and so on, and I do understand that their approach is non violence and being fortified in this moment, and that might be a lot to reconcile, but here we are