In cadence and content, the preceding battle cries — railing against
economic oppression, renouncing the myth of class mobility — could
easily hail from the same speaker. But the first belongs to Martin
Luther King Jr., as part of his 1967 speech at the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference in Atlanta, while the second comes from Helen
Keller’s treatise “An Appeal to Reason,” as part of her 1913
collection/Out of the Dark: Essays, Letters, and Addresses on Physical
and Social Vision/that defends the rights of workers, the disabled, and
others pushed to the margins of society. Blandly (if not erroneously)
described by Google Books as “celebrating Helen Keller’s triumph over
the double handicap of deafness and blindness,” the volume offers her
own story primarily as a means of championing political ideas that would
mark her a firebrand now just as much as, if not more than, 1913.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mlk-fbi-and-her-socialist-smile-desanitize-two-radical-icons/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#5681): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5681
Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79950812/21656
-=-=-
POSTING RULES & NOTES
#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.
#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern.
-=-=-
Group Owner: [email protected]
Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy
[[email protected]]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
