For love of a movement filled with promise, dedicated to the betterment of life, all life, is a worthy endeavor. King writes of the kind of work, in other words, that is a vocation. It may require that we pursue the study of this or that subject while reflecting on where our struggle began and what we have accomplished, as well ask ourselves who benefits from the repression of our interests, the interests of humanity-- to free itself the forces of authoritarianism.
Where have we yet to go?
The trilogy, completed with the 2006 publication of At Canaan's Edge, is for those who want to remember and to see a way forward.
In Where Do We Go From Here?, King's words resonates today: "Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power so that government cannot elude our demands. We must develop, from strength, a situation in which the government finds it wise and prudent to collaborate with us. It would be the height of naivete to wait passively until the administration had somehow been infused with such blessings of good will that implored us for our programs. The first course is grounded in mature realism; the other is childish fantasy."
When I read this passage, I can't help but think of the Democratic Party and it's work! It wasn't ideal under the Kennedy or the Johnson administrations, but our leadership joined their skills to that of the peoples' interests. Today, it's a very different government that has eyes, it seems, only for the capitalists class.
Where is the Democratic Party?
We are witness to a Democratic Party, a Party of establishment takers of AIPAC funding, support genocide in Gaza while refusing to acknowledge the voices of the Mayor of New York, Mamdani, or Cory Bush, Abdul El-Sayed, Justin Pearson, Donavan McKinney, Claire Vadez, Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier, voices supported by Americans tired of the lack of empathy and compassion. Americans, particularly long-suffering Black Americans, want to see a truly democratic society arise from the ashes of fascism.
In his day, King took up the mantle of speaking truth to power. He did as Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois had before him. Women struggled to maintain sovereignty over themselves and their children when they gathered those babies and stood staring down at the Atlantic, and then lifting off...
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