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Early Morning, April Four
But this is why we are drifting. And we are drifting there because nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. “I must be first.” “I must be supreme.” “Our nation must rule the world.” And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And I’m going to continue to say it to America, because I love this country too much to see the drift that it has taken.
God didn’t call America to do what she’s doing in the world now. God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam. And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation.
- “The Drum Major Instinct,” a sermon delivered by the Reverend Martin Luther King two months before his death
Sound familiar?
40 years since he was cut down, and the attempts to sanitize his radical legacy continue unabated. A pox on all the blowhard conservative pundits who attempt to posthumously turn Martin Luther King into some sort of Republican icon. May they be turned into pillars of salt.
