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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1986)
Letters to the Editor • a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was our Founding Father To the Editor: Dr king personified. perhaps to its highest degree of development, a type and style of scholarly re search and exposition that laid down the ideological framework for the attack upon this super structure of belief that rational ized the system that was oppres sing us This ideological frame work. laid down by Dr. King and countless others who labored diligently and well in the same field, proving the general frame work within which our struggle has developed on the ideological level He p o sse sse d a two-edged sword that cut brilliantly through all of thehypoi rita alargumentspushed forth in attempts to block us. W e were able to move against a thoroughly discredited system, and Dr Martin Luther King was able to articulate our grievances in a form that all could under stand. even if all did not agree. If some of us disagreed with part of what King was saying, it was no, be< ause we didn't understand him. bu, rather because we understood only too well. I'm inclined to believe the unique and lasting contribution of Dr King is that he forged a unity between theory and practice tha, had been lacking theretofore. I)r. King was able to climb ou, of the ebony tower of his pulpit, tem porarily. and ge, down into the streets where the dragon of reality lives. This gave a cast to our struggle tha, had never existed before and which has proved, with the passage of time, to be a link forged tha, can never be broken. In another sonse. in history of the decolonization of Afro- Amerika, Dr. Martin Luther King must be looked upon as sort of a Founding Father, because of his role was something like that of an independence leader in fomerly- colonized areas of the world who led their peoplu to nationhood, independence, and neo-colonial ism. The classical contours of both colonialism and decoloniza tion do no, apply to Afro-Amenka. except in their essence, for the peculiarities of our fashion and adapt the universal principles of colonization, and later decoloni zation. to this unique situation. And jus, as, for us, colonization existed in a hidden form, so has decolonization been an obscure process, and the new system of oppression being ushered in to replace the old is also not the same thing clear and blatant on its face. Like a cloud of black dust kicked up around the feet of those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, a new consciousness was unleashed that spread throughout Afro-Amerika. (Cen tral to this new consciousness was an assertiveness based upon the belief of equal moral value of the individual, regardless of his race, creed, or color. 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This also clearly points to need to reach ou, and form > und strong relationships so ' we can give up all Charlie Hr blankets and other illusion security and solace and begi change society, as did Dr. Mi Luther King. In a word, demand to abandon illusions e our condition is a demur, abandon a condition whic* quires illusions. Our pre time together is limited. W e not waste it in fruitless de ego trips, self-aggrundizemo rhetoric uninformed by thi Every word, every momen should invest with the u meaning. in the aftermath of the Korean War and in the grips of the cold War. and on the eve of the up surge of the National Liberation struggles in Afrika. Dr. King proved history must not happen behind our back We make it and must understand it. To understand history is to under stand the evolution of things. To understand evolution is to under stand the basics and possibilities of revolution. To understand the history of reality is to understand how the present reality came to be. And to understand wha, actually is. is to begin to under stand wha, can be. what must be. what will be. if we consciously and voluntarily work and struggle to bring it into being, if we dare to do more than wolf and wait. I'm inclined to believe, real knowledge begins with knowledge that there is nothing unknown, only things unknown and that all mysteries are temporary and will eventually be unraveled, no, by revelation from on high, bu, by work, research and struggle (al low To know is to begin to take charge of our lives and end the hold mythology has had on us. A correct and serious grasp of reality clearly shows that mytho logy. spookism and metaphysics • I
