MLK’s last speech (Non-fiction)


I’m clearing out the redlines for my novel, The Rift, this week. So in honor of Martin Luther King Day, I’m posting his last speech, delivered on April 3, 1968. He was speaking to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, TN. He was assassinated the next day.

We have made progress since then, but we’ve also been backsliding. Especially with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Honestly, I’m not optimistic that the Senate will pass the John Lewis Voting Rights act, but I would love to be wrong. Arc of history doesn’t bend by itself. It has to be bent by us, and we have to deal with the people trying to unbend it.

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  1. says

    I’m not optimistic that the Senate will pass the John Lewis Voting Rights act

    It’s toast.

    Nobody should be surprised to discover that most of the democrats are also white supremacist power-hungry corrupt pieces of shit. After all, they specialize in being “not quite as bad as those other guys.”

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