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■Jîortlanô (Observer
lanuary IS. 2003
All Faiths Can Unite in King’s Dream
African American Jew
reflects on the message of
Dr. Martin Luther King
B v M hhaki H i » son
F or i he P ortland O bserver
It was on a Sunday morning in
1968. I was 13-years-old and un
aware that 1 was about to miss what
would have been the most memo
rable church service of my life.
The Rev. Dr. Marti n Luther King
Jr. was invited to speak and 1 missed
that m orning's service. A few
weeks later, hearing the broken
voice of presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy, I realized that
I would never have the chance to
personally meet Dr. King again.
“Martin Luther King dedicated
his life to love and to justice for his
fellow human beings, and he died
because of that effort,” Kenney
said.
I know that Dr. King’s message
touched me and continues to touch
me as an African American. In 1968,
I was a United Methodist Christian
and recognized Dr. King as a Chris
tian leader.
Approximately nine years ago, I
converted to Judaism and have
and G entiles, P rotestants and hope that ...we will become one mean Jews— this is G od's own ticipate in terrorism was an issue
Catholics, will be able to jo in big fa m ily o f Americans. Not white truth.”
never faced by Dr. King. Yet the
hands and sing in the words o f the Americans, not Black Americans,
However, I feel that Dr. King’s words o f his guidance still echoes
old N egro spiritual, ‘Free at last! not Jewish or Gentile Americans, message is not just for Black Ameri in my mind:
fre e a t last! Thank G od Almighty, not Irish or Italian Americans, not cans and Jews. It is a universal
"I refuse to accept the v ie w . . .
we are fre e at last! ’ ”
Mexican Americans, not Puerto message. In a speech delivered in that the bright daybreak o f peace
I know that the Hebrew Bible R ic a n A m e ric a n s, b u t j u s t March 1968 just days before he and brotherhood can never b e
since developed a new perspec (Old Testam ent) speaks o f a day Americans. ,.l have a dream this was taken from us. Dr. King said: come a reality.”
tive in many o f my views on life. I
have recently asked m yself how
'We will be able to speed up that day when all o f God’s children, black
Dr. K ing’s message touches me as
a Jew.
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will
While in my dormitory room at
be able to join hands and sing in the words o f the old Negro spiritual,
Pacific University in Forest Grove
'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
as a Com munications Arts Major
in the early 1970s, I thought o f the
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
lim ited opportunities for Black
Americans in the media. Since Dr.
King’s time, there are better oppor
morning that one day the lion and
“First, we are challenged to
Dr. K ing’s challenge to me to
tunities for African Americans not
the lamb will lie down together, develop a world perspective. No day as an African American o f the
only in the media but also in the
and every man will sit under his individual can live alone, no na Jewish faith is to continue to seek
areas o f housing and employment.
own vine and jig tree and none tion can live alone, and anyone peaceful solutions to the w orld’s
Today, as I review Dr. K ing’s
shall be afraid. ”
who fe e ls that he cun live alone is crises and to not let the acts o f a few
writings, it is clear to me that part of
As a Jew, I am comforted by Dr. sleeping through a revolution. The evil persons to shade my view o f an
his message involved an accep Michael Hudson
K ing’s specific warning against world in which we live is geo entire religion. And most im por
tance o f people o f all religions and
anti-Semitism in his “Letter to an graphically one. T h i challenge tant, to be appreciative o f those
backgrounds.
when all humankind will be able to Anti-Zionist Friend” published in that we fa c e today is to make it one who fought before me to make the ,
In Dr. K ing’s m ost fam ous live as brothers and sisters. Micah 1967:
in terms o f brotherhood. "
world a better place and to never
speech delivered on the steps of 5:4 proclaims, “Every person shall
“You declare, my friend, that
Dr. King did not live through the stop the fight to bring dignity, re
the Lincoln memorial in 1963, he dwell under their vine and under you do not hate the Jews, you are challenges o f the new millennium.
spect and equality to all people
proclaimed:
their ow n fig tree undisturbed.” I merely ‘anti-Zionist. ’ And I say, let Certainly, the challenge o f dealing regardless o f race, nationality, reli
“When we let freedom ring . . . look forward to such an era. Dr. the truth ring fo rth fro m the high with the threat of terror and yet gion or economic status.
we will he able to speed up that King clearly shared this view when mountain tops, let it echo through showing the proper amount o f com
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day when all o f G od's children, he spoke these words in 1965:
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