At the beginning of every year, Black people are forced to relive Martin Luther King Jr.’s nightmare of mass integration with and love for white folks. Every time we hear it, we have either of (4) responses:
•Integrationist Negroes think to themselves, “This is so beautiful. I prey these white folks learn to love us one day. Thank you Reverend King for teaching us to love white folks. One day, God willing, they will love us too!”
•Everyday Black people think to themselves, “I don’t know if I really agree with loving the racist white folks. Dr. King meant well, but maybe we should rethink that a little bit.”
•Strong Black people who are wiling to fight think to themselves, “I respect the man, but I ain’t with no turn the other cheek #$%@. You hit me, I’ma hit yo’ &%$ back.”
•PanAfrikans, Black Nationalists, and Haitianists think to themselves, “What kinda *&$# was that koon smokin? Turn that *%$^ off in my house. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be using that kind of language around the children. But turn that bull&^%$ off now god&^%$&^!!!! Happy slavin’ koon motha&$%……”
We fail to consider the fact that we start our children off every year in January, one of the coldest months of the year, with a living testimonial of how to be a good Negro who is in love with his white enemies. This is a shining example of what slavery in amerikkka has done to the minds of our people. We have not only fallen in love with the whites who are committing racial genocide against us worldwide, but we have fallen in love with Negro preachers who love white folks as well. The great irony of it all is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not and does not represent anywhere near the best that Black religious figures in the history of amerikkka have to offer.
For instance, the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was an admitted Christian (no one is perfect), whose contribution to our Race was so much more relevant than King’s, that Martin Luther King Jr.’s name shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same category with Mr. Garvey. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad organized and maintained a religious-based Black Nation within the boundaries of the u.s. for over a half-a-century. Religious men like Denmark Vesey, Gabrielle Prosser, David Walker, Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, The Reverend Ishakamusa Barashango, Malcolm X, Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, among many others, fought for our Race with truth and dignity in a way that Negro preachers never have.