Kurti: Martin Luther King Jr was not a moralist but a deeply political organizer

Kurti says he was deeply political, not moralising, but an organiser.

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Fifty years ago, the prominent liberation and equality event Martin Luther King Jr was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

Many words of honor have been spoken about M.L. King Jr., and I don't want to last. I just want to highlight two elements.

Dr. King is often mentioned as leader of the civil rights movement, at a time when the Africans lived even legally discriminated. However, the official rights of the Africans arrived in 1964-65. What Martin Luther King Jr did. So, did it stop? Was it enough to enforce discriminatory laws and to achieve formal rights for his people? No.

Martin Luther King Jr. At that time he planned the second step of his movement, that of the road to social and economic equality. So he did not remain just a human rights activist, in the sense of someone depoliticized or apolitical. No, he was deeply political. It wasn't moralistic, it was organising. One day before he died, he was a part of the strikes and protests of cleaning workers in Memphis, who were mostly close-to-Americans. But he also began to organize more and more with workers and white unemployed. It was not limited to a narrow matter representing a community but was widely engaged in society.

So while people read little today, it is good to know that MLK was not a one-dimensional political figure.

He has been a civil rights activist, but also a radical political activist.

He has been a pacifist and a follower of the non-violence of violence against no man, but he has not obeyed police orders to stop peaceful marches that have since left the crash.

He was a universalist, but his universality helped him to achieve it by first releasing his people and his nation.

It has been for formal rights and legal equality, but when it accomplished this, it continued its struggle for corporate, social, and economic equality.

He was a leader of Africans, worked and fought for them, but did not seek their isolation; rather, he worked to build a poor - class movement, regardless of race.

He was a Christian clergyman inspired by a Hindu believer, such as Gandhi, and he cooperated with a Muslim, such as Malcolm X. And in his political movement, he cooperated with people of all religions and atheists. He did not tolerate, he cooperated. Cooperation was much better than tolerance.

We respect the memory and tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., and we remind him of this statement: “Peace is not just a lack of violence. Peace is the presence of justice”.