MLK's Address to End the War from 1967 still relevant for us on #MLKDay2024:

"While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously supervised and required to be an instant success, billions are liberally expended for this ill-considered war. The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam explode at home, they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

It is estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill, while we spend in the so-called War on Poverty in America only about $53 for each person classified as "poor." And much of that $53 goes for salaries of people who are not poor. We have escalated the war in Vietnam and de-escalated the skirmish against poverty. It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing.”

#MLKJrDay #MLK2024 #UBI #BasicIncome

"I had seen police brutality with my own eyes and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the court. All of these things had done something to my growing personality."

- Dr. Martin Luther King

That this brutality and injustice continues so many years since should do something to ours.

#MLK #MLKDay #MLK2024

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Two ground-breaking speeches from the year before he was assassinated -- often ignored in his bios:

The Three Evils of Society (speech): War, Racism and Poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9Hjh0cHM

Beyond Vietnam (transcript and audio)
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

#MLK #MLK2024

Note: it seems youtube took down the second speech, which seems odd. In any case, we're happy to prodded to find this other one -- which has no ads and doesn't enrich Google (or anyone)

Wishing you a meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we honor his legacy: Equality and Justice for all.

#MLK #MLKday #MLK2024
#Equality #Justice

(1/2) Ep 24: Holiday Recap and 2024 Priorities

https://anchor.fm/wsshare/episodes/Ep-24-Holiday-Recap-and-2024-Priorities-e2efjr7

#wsshare #EmptyNest #parenting #NewYear #GoOutside #HealOurCulture #AntiRacism #MLK2024

It’s 2024! Welcome to episode 24 of the “Wes and Shelly Share podcast,” where we reflect on our journey as “empty nesters” living in North Carolina. In this episode, we discuss some highlights from our holidays in December 2023, and in part two reflect on our priorities for the coming