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May 11, 2022Liked by Stacey Eskelin

"Fear always erupts as anger." -- A therapist of mine used to say, "Fear is the hand, anger is the glove."

By the bye, things certainly haven't changed in a mere 2 millennia, but you could probably have extended that an easy three orders of magnitude to two million years.

Another by the bye, the 1963 March on Washington was centrally a *labor* movement. The largest organizer of the event was the CIO (this was before they joined the AFL.) An excellent source of essays and speeches by King demonstrating this long standing connection between the labor and American Civil Rights movements is "All Labor Has Dignity," edited by Michael K. Honey (who is also an exceptional King scholar.) That terrible April day in Memphis, King was supporting the black workers in the city's garbage collection services.

I can, perhaps, be forgiven for sharing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAUrab7mgmQ

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That was a great clip. Love me some Patti Smith.

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