From MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail:
"Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
An apt description of
#BlackTwitter and
#BlackMastodon - this is exactly what black folks have used social media from my personal observance.
But also why we must protest when injustice is abroad amongst us and our neighbors.
#MLKJrDay #MLKJr #MLK