Where you end is where you begin, in reading, writing, speaking, walking, building. Where you end is where you begin. The Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968, with the murder of the now- martyr, Martin Luther King, Jr., when the focus was on securing economic rights, and eliminating the poverty, of Negroes, of poor whites and of Chicanos in 1968. Almost 50 years later, the same economic issues remain unresolved, as attention focused on politics, social integration, and allied issues not connected to reparations or restorative economics, known as 'restitution' in legal terms.
This is where the movement must now predominantly focus, and must be the metric by which all else is measured. Begin again at the spool's end.
Monday, June 16, 2014
BEGIN WHERE YOU END
Where you end is where you begin, in reading, writing, speaking, walking, building. Where you end is where you begin. The Civil Rights Movement ended in 1968, with the murder of the now- martyr, Martin Luther King, Jr., when the focus was on securing economic rights, and eliminating the poverty, of Negroes, of poor whites and of Chicanos in 1968. Almost 50 years later, the same economic issues remain unresolved, as attention focused on politics, social integration, and allied issues not connected to reparations or restorative economics, known as 'restitution' in legal terms.
This is where the movement must now predominantly focus, and must be the metric by which all else is measured. Begin again at the spool's end.