In early April, Huffington Post released an article about Bernice King’s sermon at the
Mason Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis during the I AM 2018 event. Ms.
King told the crowd of her father’s would be next speech, which was titled “America
May Go to Hell.” She goes on to tell the crowd that today, America may still go to hell.
“We have not, in 50 years, dealt with, as daddy challenged us to deal with, the last
vestiges of racism,” she said. “We must repent because daddy challenged us to deal
with a second evil: poverty, which we have refused to confront in this nation.” My
mother actually went to law school with Bernice King at Emory University at noted
her as a well versed, educated woman who worked hard to overcome the stereotypes
she faced while in school. In the dog eat dog world of law school, Ms. King fought
hard to stay true to herself, and looking at the work she is doing today, it seems as
though she won that battle. During her speech, Ms. King challenged America to break
the vicious cycle of racism, poverty, and militarism. “We will get to the Promised Land,
but each one of us has to make an individual decision to repent of our ways, repent for
being drawn into the divisive discourse in this nation.”
As Ms. King so appropriately put it, America needs to wake up and face the facts. It has
been fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King and African Americans still
find themselves at a severe disadvantage in nearly all aspects of life. Many groups such
as the Black Lives Matter activists and the crusaders of the Me Too movement has
continued Dr. Kings movement, but more people need to come together to effectively
bring about change. At that same speech in Memphis just a couple of weeks ago, Martin
Luther King III instilled a sense of hope, saying that “we’ve come to far from where we
started. You see, nobody ever told us that our roads would be easy, but I know… our
God didn’t bring us this far to leave us.”
Mason Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis during the I AM 2018 event. Ms.
King told the crowd of her father’s would be next speech, which was titled “America
May Go to Hell.” She goes on to tell the crowd that today, America may still go to hell.
“We have not, in 50 years, dealt with, as daddy challenged us to deal with, the last
vestiges of racism,” she said. “We must repent because daddy challenged us to deal
with a second evil: poverty, which we have refused to confront in this nation.” My
mother actually went to law school with Bernice King at Emory University at noted
her as a well versed, educated woman who worked hard to overcome the stereotypes
she faced while in school. In the dog eat dog world of law school, Ms. King fought
hard to stay true to herself, and looking at the work she is doing today, it seems as
though she won that battle. During her speech, Ms. King challenged America to break
the vicious cycle of racism, poverty, and militarism. “We will get to the Promised Land,
but each one of us has to make an individual decision to repent of our ways, repent for
being drawn into the divisive discourse in this nation.”
As Ms. King so appropriately put it, America needs to wake up and face the facts. It has
been fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King and African Americans still
find themselves at a severe disadvantage in nearly all aspects of life. Many groups such
as the Black Lives Matter activists and the crusaders of the Me Too movement has
continued Dr. Kings movement, but more people need to come together to effectively
bring about change. At that same speech in Memphis just a couple of weeks ago, Martin
Luther King III instilled a sense of hope, saying that “we’ve come to far from where we
started. You see, nobody ever told us that our roads would be easy, but I know… our
God didn’t bring us this far to leave us.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/martin-luther-king-jr-children-reveal-scathing-sermon_us_5ac4ae7de4b063ce2e578e84
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