In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech entitled, “The Other America”, in which he said, “It’s much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job.” This was a theme he repeated time and time again throughout his life because he saw the unbreakable bonds between the twin evils of racism and economic oppression. He made those links right up to the day before he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 when he marched in support of striking sanitation workers.
And if King were alive today, he would link the murder of George Floyd and mass uprisings taking place across the nation with the economic oppression, the scourge of capitalism, that has brutalized people of color for decades. That’s what I talk about today featuring segments with two guests, Janelle Jones and Valerie Wilson, who outlined the realities of economic racism in two past episodes.
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