Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at the University of California administration building in Berkeley, Calif., in 1967. If King preached peace and racial justice, the U.S. is instead a war regime predicated upon the disposability of nonwhite people at home and abroad. Their efforts include an ongoing campaign to reclaim the radical King. We might start by separating the history of black struggle from the fantasy of American exceptionalism. Thus King and the radical traditions of black struggle remain relevant to our time.

Source: Washington Post January 15, 2018 13:04 UTC