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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. Dr. King
resurrected and breathed now
life into wha, had become a dead
letter of lost faith in Amerikkka at
the beginning of the second
Eisenhower-Nixon administration.
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Luther King. In a word,
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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
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