Stop Celebrating Martin Luther King
http://www.redletterchristians.org/stop-celebrating-martin-luther-king/#sthash.xyXXYSdb.gbpl Posted Jan 20 2014 by Matt Rindge with 2 Comments Today, America engages in its annual ritual of misremembering Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Rev. Dr. King often indicted what he called the “triple evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism,” America chiefly associates King with only one of these ills; our predominant picture of King is as an opponent of racial segregation. But this image is a distortion. For in the last few years of his life, King increasingly aimed his prophetic critique at the twin “evils” of poverty and America’s militarism. Efforts to help poor people led King to be in Memphis on the day of his assassination. He was there to join a strike of 1,300 sanitation workers seeking better working conditions, higher wages, and the right to join a union. King raised troubling questions about an economic system that perpetuate...