Vann R. Newkirk II

We're lost.

This is Monday.

Mm-hmm.

I can remember snippets through the world news.

Yeah, so the Second Amendment is supposed to be this thing that protects people from the government. The whole entire ethos of it is you get people, you give them guns, and you give them guns so they can build a militia to protect themselves against tyranny.

Yeah, so the Second Amendment is supposed to be this thing that protects people from the government. The whole entire ethos of it is you get people, you give them guns, and you give them guns so they can build a militia to protect themselves against tyranny.

And so you have teachers who are state agents, right, paid by the state, who are taking care of our kids, who have sometimes done bad things to those kids, and you're giving them guns. So, especially in Florida, you have a guy who... was known to use the N-word with his students and was suspended for doing it, you give that guy a gun.

And so you have teachers who are state agents, right, paid by the state, who are taking care of our kids, who have sometimes done bad things to those kids, and you're giving them guns. So, especially in Florida, you have a guy who... was known to use the N-word with his students and was suspended for doing it, you give that guy a gun.

So what we want to do is challenge people. You know, we want people to read every single article in this issue and come away thinking about something new, something they had never thought about, something they never even fathomed about Dr. King. And what that does as a whole is so many times politicians bring up, or people who have an agenda bring up Dr. King. They quote the dream speech.

So what we want to do is challenge people. You know, we want people to read every single article in this issue and come away thinking about something new, something they had never thought about, something they never even fathomed about Dr. King. And what that does as a whole is so many times politicians bring up, or people who have an agenda bring up Dr. King. They quote the dream speech.

They do the same thing, okay? He want us to live in a colorblind society where our kids can go to school together. They quote this one part, but they don't quote the part about him being against the Vietnam War. They don't say his speech, his letter from Birmingham jail, where he talks about the white moderate, and nobody asks themselves, am I the white moderate? Right.

They do the same thing, okay? He want us to live in a colorblind society where our kids can go to school together. They quote this one part, but they don't quote the part about him being against the Vietnam War. They don't say his speech, his letter from Birmingham jail, where he talks about the white moderate, and nobody asks themselves, am I the white moderate? Right.

So nobody, everybody now is pro-King and not racist, but nobody's reading King now for how to be anti-racist.

So nobody, everybody now is pro-King and not racist, but nobody's reading King now for how to be anti-racist.

So I remember when I was in school and I had a teacher who told me straight up that the civil rights movement was victorious, that we won, that we we won. And what I could never reconcile was how did we win if Dr. King was assassinated while protesting? How did we win the civil rights movement?

So I remember when I was in school and I had a teacher who told me straight up that the civil rights movement was victorious, that we won, that we we won. And what I could never reconcile was how did we win if Dr. King was assassinated while protesting? How did we win the civil rights movement?

How are we victorious if while protesting for higher wages for sanitation workers in Memphis, he was assassinated and his poor people's movement was derailed? So I always want to revisit that point. So when I wrote that essay, I was listening to Nina Simone's song, Why the King of Love is Dead. She wrote it three days after he was assassinated.

How are we victorious if while protesting for higher wages for sanitation workers in Memphis, he was assassinated and his poor people's movement was derailed? So I always want to revisit that point. So when I wrote that essay, I was listening to Nina Simone's song, Why the King of Love is Dead. She wrote it three days after he was assassinated.

And she's talking about will the country stand or fall? she's talking about a country that seemed then on the verge of an apocalypse. And so I really wanted to go back to that moment and see how we get from that moment, where you're talking about the end of the world, the black community in shambles and tears and unrest and riots, and how you go from there to here in 50 years and say we won.

And she's talking about will the country stand or fall? she's talking about a country that seemed then on the verge of an apocalypse. And so I really wanted to go back to that moment and see how we get from that moment, where you're talking about the end of the world, the black community in shambles and tears and unrest and riots, and how you go from there to here in 50 years and say we won.