Friend, our team is just finishing up a day of service at Huston-Tillotson college, and I've had this quote from Dr. King's daughter, Bernice, in my head all day:
"Many who quote him now would have hated him then. He was assassinated for trying to eradicate the evils some claim he’d support today. But he was a Christ-centered, love-fueled, justice-seeking, peacemaking, globally-minded, nonviolent revolutionary and prophet."
Politicians are notorious for twisting Dr. King’s words to suit their purposes. Dan Patrick invoked Dr. King in support of his horrific and discriminatory “bathroom bill.” Greg Abbott, who has made a career of damaging and undermining civil and voting rights, public education, and economic empowerment for Black Texans, will still tweet the “I Have a Dream” speech.
In Texas -- a state that has done everything it can since before Jim Crow to disenfranchise Black and brown Texans -- every one of us has an opportunity to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King by speaking hard and inconvenient truths. We have to remember that Dr. King’s life’s work was challenging oppressive power structures. In short, we have to be nonviolent revolutionaries for justice.
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I pledge to stay in this fight for a better tomorrow.
-Julie
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