Unholy Trinity

Something to ponder as we celebrate the life and message of Martin Luther King on this national holiday.

It is important to recall that King was assassinated five years after the "I Have a Dream" speech that most Americans associate with the civil rights leader.

By 1968, the Vietnam War was in full, ugly bloom and King was making associations that made the powers-that-be extremely uncomfortable.  This included members of his own organization who deemed that MLK had become "too radical."

His message had evolved from a call for "brotherhood" to a condemnation of the American status quo.  He had begun to speak out against the war and settled into a routine recitation of the unholy trinity of what ailed the U.S.--"racism, poverty and militarism."

Sadly, in the years since his murder we haven't moved very far off the block.


TS