{"id":345331,"date":"2018-01-25T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-trials-of-africa-and-the-real-dr-king-they-want-us-to-forget\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:13:30","slug":"the-trials-of-africa-and-the-real-dr-king-they-want-us-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-trials-of-africa-and-the-real-dr-king-they-want-us-to-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On January 15, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King\u2019s Day. His famous speech, \u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of the evil of racism, which is being resurrected in a most pronounced way in American society.<\/p>\n<p>But that is only one version of Dr. King that is allowed to be broadcast, at least in polite company. The other, more revolutionary, radical and global King is to remain hidden from view.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly one year before he was assassinated, on April 4, 1968, Dr. King delivered a truly scathing speech that challenged not only the state apparatus by the liberal hierarchy which posed as if they were his allies. It was called: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm\">Beyond Vietnam<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop now,\u201d he said, his voice thundering. \u201cI speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, he added these words, which sent much alarm among those who sought to isolate anti-war efforts from King\u2019s own struggle:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI speak of the \u2013 for the \u2013 poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the more famous speech \u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 \u2013 delivered in the 1963 \u2018March on Washington\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Beyond Vietnam\u2019 pushed past the boundaries of what is acceptable by \u2018liberal\u2019 America into whole new territories, where Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/the-trials-of-africa-and-the-real-dr-king-they-want-us-to-forget\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 15, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther King\u2019s Day. His famous speech, \u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of the evil of racism, which is being resurrected in a most pronounced way in American society. But that is only one version of Dr. King that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}