When Martin Luther King was shot I felt the
sudden shift in the
atmosphere, like trying to
breathe underwater. It was
three years after
Malcom X’s assassination and
my new radical
friends and reading had
opened my eyes to the
realities of class in the
USA. King spent years
fighting racism and despite
attempts on his life
and tons of threats seemed
invulnerable, but as
soon as he organized a poor
people’s campaign,
talking about the haves and
have-nots, BAM!
Malcolm verbally attacked
white folks with
impunity, but the minute he
decided it was not
about race but about the poor
and the wealthy,
BAM! I wondered if the
Marxists had it right.
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