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In reply to the discussion: Bernie cannot come to the cookout. Sorry, not sorry. [View all]Sam McGee
(347 posts)I'm preparing a Sunday School lesson for my church's adult class this Sunday; I'm using MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" as support of Christ's message.
For those of you not familiar with the Letter -- read:
1. An Appeal to Law and Order and Common Sense, January 1963
2. Statement by Alabama Clergymen, April 1963
3. Letter from Birmingham Jail, August 1963
The background.
King and his supporters were in and out of Alabama, mainly Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham with marches, protests and other non-violent civil disobedience. An ecumenical group of senior Alabama clergy took issue with King, arguing that, yes, segregation was bad but instead of "outsiders" roiling the waters in Alabama, things should be settled by Alabamans black and white using the courts -- that's the topic of 1 and 2 above. King replied to them in a letter written, from memory, over a period of days, on scraps of paper smuggled into and out of the jail.
King's letter is the most powerful statement ever written of how faith motivates politics.
Bernie and the Bernistas should read it. As should Ms. Roberts.
The rest of us, too.