Vann R. Newkirk II

Yeah, Obama was president eight years, and now will we ever have another black president? Will you ever have another president, is the question I ask.

Yeah, Obama was president eight years, and now will we ever have another black president? Will you ever have another president, is the question I ask.

Yeah, I learned a lot reading that essay from Jean Dio Harris. She was talking about Coretta, Coretta Scott King, and how Martin's development politically came from conversation with Coretta. So a lot of what he was doing was sort of mansplaining Coretta, right? He was going out and saying, okay, she was against the Vietnam War years before he was. Wow.

Yeah, I learned a lot reading that essay from Jean Dio Harris. She was talking about Coretta, Coretta Scott King, and how Martin's development politically came from conversation with Coretta. So a lot of what he was doing was sort of mansplaining Coretta, right? He was going out and saying, okay, she was against the Vietnam War years before he was. Wow.

She, when they were courting each other and when they were still dating, She was the one who was sort of giving him these economic ideas, passing him along texts about what to read and how to learn and grow.

She, when they were courting each other and when they were still dating, She was the one who was sort of giving him these economic ideas, passing him along texts about what to read and how to learn and grow.

So if you look at Coretta, Coretta Scott King, not just as King's help me, as someone who was an activist in her own right, you start looking at just all these other women in the movement who did so much. Rosa Parks, who was an operative, we're taught in school that she was a tired old lady who sat down.

So if you look at Coretta, Coretta Scott King, not just as King's help me, as someone who was an activist in her own right, you start looking at just all these other women in the movement who did so much. Rosa Parks, who was an operative, we're taught in school that she was a tired old lady who sat down.

She was out there, she built the same organizing structures that actually King relied on when he was doing the boycotts. Those were built by black women against sexual assault.

She was out there, she built the same organizing structures that actually King relied on when he was doing the boycotts. Those were built by black women against sexual assault.

The same things, yeah.

The same things, yeah.

I think from reading him, his thing was never being satisfied with where we are, because there's always space. in that speech wasn't the place where we need to be in terms of race. The mountaintop was having the vision to see where we needed to go, and I think that vision was that the road is everlasting. The moral arc of the universe is always bending towards justice, and we bend it.

I think from reading him, his thing was never being satisfied with where we are, because there's always space. in that speech wasn't the place where we need to be in terms of race. The mountaintop was having the vision to see where we needed to go, and I think that vision was that the road is everlasting. The moral arc of the universe is always bending towards justice, and we bend it.

So I think King would be protesting Regardless of whatever situation is on the ground right now in America, he will be protesting because that's what he does. That's what an activist does. They were always agitating. And so that's what I want people to take away from the magazine is that his activism was always agitating. It was always moving forward and progressing.

So I think King would be protesting Regardless of whatever situation is on the ground right now in America, he will be protesting because that's what he does. That's what an activist does. They were always agitating. And so that's what I want people to take away from the magazine is that his activism was always agitating. It was always moving forward and progressing.

And you see in the last year of his life, before he was assassinated, he sat down and thought, how do I move this forward? And he came forward with the most ambitious proposal. program to fight poverty, to fight militarism, and to fight racism across the globe. And that was King.

And you see in the last year of his life, before he was assassinated, he sat down and thought, how do I move this forward? And he came forward with the most ambitious proposal. program to fight poverty, to fight militarism, and to fight racism across the globe. And that was King.

King.

King.