Sharing lessons learned from Martin Luther King
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By Luk Kuth Dak.
April 27, 2011 — I have a total of six books authored by the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. under my belt, in addition to other books
written about him, one of which is: “ I may not get there with you,”
by Michael Eric Dyson, PhD.
Armed with a PhD at an early age, Dr. King could have been anything
and everything that he wanted to be in the real world, other than
putting his life in constant jeopardy, as a liberator and a civil
rights leader for the African- Americans people. But he loved his
people so much so that he put them first, and he was ready to die to
free them from the brutality of slavery.
“ I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he
would die for, he isn’t fit to live,” he told his followers.
When Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he decided to
donate the entire purse to the civil rights movement. He believed that
the prize recognized the movement’s importance, not simply his
individual leadership genius.
Through it all, Dr. King’s admires often ask him: “ Hey Doc!” “ when
are you going to run for the Congress or the House of the
Representatives?” His answer was almost always the same: “ It’s not my
calling.”
But when the questions persisted, he literally told them that: “ I am
not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power
that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
Case closed!
Contrarily, in South Sudan, it seems as though the only “ calling” for
anyone and everyone, is to become the president, the vice president,
or the speaker of the house, respectively.
Subsequently, even some folks, who can never point to anyone else as
being a classmate, the likes the most disgraced, cold-blooded
murderer, and the worst of all traitors in the history of South Sudan,
the so-called Gen. Peter Gadeet, want to be the president of South
Sudan, or else!
Worst of it all, there are some intellectuals, unfortunately, with
flashy PhDs, who have basically made it a career in reaching their
selfish and individualistic goals of becoming ministers in the
government of South Sudan ( GoSS) only by riding the backs of those
illiterates bullies of Gadeet’s caliber.
That brings us face to face with a couple of burning questions: What
are the meaning and the importance of being educated, or earning a
PhD? And how many presidents could we have at one time?
Here again, Dr. King puts it best: “ The function of education is to
teach one to think intensively and to think creatively. Intelligence
plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
Truth is, we can only have one ( elected) president at one time. I
guarantee you that, if President Salva Kiir Mayardit weren’t an
elected official, I, for one, won’t be in his corner. But because he
was chosen, almost unanimously, by the people of South Sudan, he has
not only my utmost support and respect, but above it all, my loyalty.
Most importantly, he has the right to finish the term for which he was
elected to.
More so, as humble as he is, President Kiir would be the first to tell
you that there are many more other great leaders in South Sudan. He
would even supply the list for you, because he knows, and he should,
that those leaders will take their place in due time.
And yet, traitors like Peter Gadeet and Abdul- Baggi, Should have
never been allowed to merge with the brave men of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army (SPLA), because they only sought the merger to make it
easier for them to spy on the SPLA from within.
I rest my case!
The author’s vice president of the Sudanese – Americans Journalists
Union, and former anchorman at Juba Radio. He can be reached via
e-mail at [email protected]
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