01/15/2024
Today we honor the stones that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set on the same pathway that we walk towards freedom. We share his dream of a , , and . 🇵🇸 🇸🇸 🇨🇩 🇸🇩
We share his dream of a promised land - without genocide or war. A land where Indigenous people live in harmony as we enjoy the fruits of our labor, from generations of ancestral nurturing. 🫒
Black Freedom looks like Black Solidarity and international peace. Today we mourn, we reflect and we interpret Dr. Kings legacy as it transcends time. ✊🏾🖤❤️🔥
Repost via United for Palestine 🇵🇸 - Within Our Lifetime: “Today we remember Martin Luther King Jr’s forgotten 1959 trip to Palestine, a chapter that has been strategically erased from mainstream history. In March of that year, following five months in India, King and his wife Coretta traveled to Lebanon and then to Palestine, during which time they visited East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Nablus and Jericho.
Upon returning to Montgomery, Alabama, King delivered a sermon on Easter Sunday reflecting on his time in Palestine. During the sermon he explained that Jerusalem “has been divided and split up and partitioned. And before you can enter one side of the city, it must be clear that you will not enter the other. If on your visa it is revealed that you are going into any Arab nation, you can only go to Israel without being able to ever go back to an Arab country in the life of your passport.” He chose not to enter israeli-occupied West Jerusalem.
Over the course of the next eight years, King was invited to visit 1948 Palestine by the israeli government and multiple zionist organizations a half dozen times. On every occasion he accepted the offer, and then canceled. This took place in 1963, 1964, twice in 1965, in 1966 and again in 1967. While zionists have long claimed MLK as one of their own, his travel logs tell a different story…..” {read comments for full statement}