Dr. Martin Luther King challenged the injustices of today, more than 50 years ago. Today, I sent a message to 2 US Senators who are a barrier to the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. In 1965, Dr. King ensured everyone had the franchise. However, we are fighting to avoid the disenfranchisement of the marginalized in 2022. It’s the same fight more than 50 years later. It is a matter of life and death. We must honor Dr. King with addressing the civil injustices in the USA. Yes, a day of civil protest instead of service. @sistateacher
I feel annoyed every time I see a reference to “service” in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. Why? Certainly not because King himself was not a servant of justice. Indeed, just like the figure King followed, it was a service of ultimate sacrifice, service unto death.
But King’s variety of service was a type that challenged an unjust society at the level of its core institutions and practices, that named evil and demanded action to end it. It was surely not volunteer service to clean up the litter on an untended corner lot or a few hours of helping out at the local animal shelter. It was in no way “feel good” service, as his speech at New York’s Riverside Church, one year before he was murdered in Memphis, made abundantly clear.
With the horrors of the Vietnam War in mind, King’s version of service was to call…
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