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Took the assassination of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior to push the pen for housing rights. So MLKA had been a very prim and proper negro right. He was very much that in the part in the Fight for Black he marched, he got arrested, all of that, but he was willing to work with the whites from a place of moral grounds. He really believed, like he genuinely believed that the issue we faced as black folks in the United States was really much more of a
disconnect from it's humanity. Like if we just show them that we are human like them, then they'll get it. You know. We just haven't had the chance to do that. So using passive resistance was a way we could disarm their hatred love. I mean, it was a noble vision. It was a noble vision. What's I hate? Or should I say a dream? It was right there, however, and
where do we go from here? Community or chaos? The last book he wrote before being assassinated on that fateful balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, he laments that a year after the Voden Rights Act had passed, though the law changed, the American sentiment toward the Negro, the black, the colored, whatever you want to call us, had not, Malcolm Pete marchers in Chicago were being attacked by thousands waving Nazi flags.
Sorry s s okay, all right. Negro leaders present in Selma were removed from the offices of their organizations huh, and political candidates like Ronald Reagan, who was running for governor of California, or campaigning on a message of make America great again. This was the burning house that MLK Junior feared. He'd integrated people into, one that, though built on a blueprint of morals right, was not furnished with them. In the book, he lists a series of frustrating realities
that led him to a damning conclusion. The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with unjust, they are uneasy with injustice, but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it. Does
this seem familiar. We're so often sold a version of doctor King that is palatable to the oppressor, like one that depicts him as like an obedient subject, passively asking for their rights on bended knees like Pisa or rights, rather than forcefully demanding them when in actuality, he was only twenty six at the start of the Montgomery Boycott, and by his death he was thirty nine. You know how much you change and that amount of time. Like I was dating drug dealers in twenty six, I still
was at thirty nine. We fall down, we grow up. So like though MLK may have started seeking integration. He eventually saw through the diyes and understood that it was capitalism that was allowing racism to subsist. Like Ooh. He began to support the labor unions. He questioned government allocation of resources. He advocated for reparations where we cut in the jack. It was after all of this, when he had evolved into Martin Luther Lucking, that this nation thought
to be rid of him. And upon his exit, the cities went up in flames. Folks had been living through assassination after assassination after assassination after assassination, I mean riots broke out, with anger and frustration and betrayal pouring into the streets. The powers that be knew there was no control to be found without causing a massacre. It was
righteous rage that screamed you will not ignore us. And in their fear and desperation of a populace living in their power, the American leadership did what they always do. They pacified the people with another hen Nigger law, the Fair Housing Act of nineteen sixty eight, signed just days after we lost MLK, and it outlawed discriminatory practices in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. The fact that they had to make laws to outlaw the discrimination tells
you everything. They never wanted us here, Not when we had to use the Green Book to navigate a safe route through the South. Not when the officers who beat Rodney King, the officer who killed Eric Gardner Garner, the officer who killed Eric Garner, and the wannabe officer who took the life of Treyvon Martin all walked free. Not when Breonna Taylor was shot asleep in her bed, Keisha McHale was shot thirteen times sitting in the park car. We still have no idea what happened to Sandra Bland.
They never wanted us here, Not when they abandoned New Orleans after Katrina, calling them people refugees in their own country, Not when the maternity mortality rate of Black women remains three times that of white, Hispanic and Asian women due to discriminatory healthcare. They never wanted us here, And so I do not consider myself American. I'm Black like I'm of us, but I'm not them. If we were, we wouldn't have had to raise our voices again during BLM
to declare an inalienable fact Black lives better. The footage of George Floyd being lynched by the chokehold of that bastard cop. The same rage as the beatings of Bloody Sunday, the pouring of acid into that swimming pool and the
taking of another leader's life. By the way, I just I think a lot of relationships were saved due to them protests during COVID, because like, after being cooped up, I think folks was like, you know what, let me get out of this house, get in this revolution before we get at a boss my beret and this time flurri few all over the world, but people in London were knocking over statues of white men. I didn't know then,
I take that lunch Chessel, what fucking Tony you gotcha? Cottons, Bloody broy Once again the people rose, but before we could turn our pain into praticis and coalitions, once again, they found a way to quiet our descent. Happy Jonesy here nigga. Watch the full two and a half hour show of What would the Ancestors Say? Live from La now streaming only on Patreon. Amanda Seals Smart finding It. Thank you for your support of SMARTPHNNY and Black Productions.
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