#berniceking

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✊🏿🖤☮ #ArtIsAWeapon A revolutionary brilliant Black king was born 95 years ago today (January 15, 1929). I do not have the words to adequately convey my deep gratitude, respect and admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s service, sacrifice, courage and love. Thank you @berniceaking for continuing your father and mother's work.

I do not know when or where Dr. King made the speech from which this clip was taken (I have researched for several years). I watch this often - especially when I hear white supremacists and white liberals alike attempt to sanitize Dr. King's radical, revolutionary messages to us. Watch him speaking more of these powerful, transformative words on @youtube: https://youtu.be/voV9ld-Qooc

"I come here tonight to plead with you. Believe in yourself and believe that you are somebody. I said to a group last night: Nobody else can do this for us. No document can do this for us. No Lincolnian emancipation proclamation can do this for us. No Johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us.

If the Negro is to be free, he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.

Don’t let anybody take your manhood. Be proud of our heritage…we don’t have anything to be ashamed of.

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It’s always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it’s always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight.

I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: ‘Yes, I’m Black, I’m proud of it. I’m Black and beautiful!'" - Dr. King

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Images and caption reposted from @zebablay I am honestly so deeply depressed and disgusted by everything at the moment. But, a few thoughts on this day: Allyship should not be transactional. Genocide is not and never will be justifiable. And, there is something so deeply perverse about how Western imperial powers harass, surveil and ultimately kill freedom fighters/leaders like MLK only to sanitize and sloganize their messages, then suppress/weaponize their legacies in the name of genocide and empire. This country did not deserve Martin Luther King Jr. Did not. Enjoy your day off or whatever.

1. Coretta Scott King gazes into the eyes of Bernice King, then 5-years-old, at MLK’s funeral

2. Tweet by @berniceking

3. Excerpt from Nikki Giovanni’s “Reflections on April 4, 1968”

4. MLK on the scam that is settler colonialism

5-7. Excerpts from Michelle Alexander’s 2019 NYT op-ed “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine”

8. bell hooks on MLK

9. Mother and daughter, grieving

#HappyBirthdayDrKing

#BlackandBeautiful #DrKing #MLK #revolutionary #AmericanHero #MartinLutherKingJr #ImBlackAndBeautiful #FreedomFighter #BlackBrilliance #RadicalLove #NationalDayOfService

[tuttle-did-it]

AMERICA ARE YOU OKAY

NO YOU ARE NOT OKAY

Why the fuck isn't this on every single news site right now?!

[uinterview]

Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King, is setting the record straight regarding her father’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict following a Twitter post made by comedian Amy Schumer.

Full Story Here

[blaqsbi]

Post: Amy Schumer Shredded By MLKs Daughter Bernice King and Others After Comic Uses MLK Quotes To... https://www.blaqsbi.com/5uBR

[msnaturaltee202]

Rest In Peace Tyre Nichols 🙏🏽💔

[feminist-space]

Be A King

@BerniceKing

"With my mother. Daddy's funeral.

He wasn't assassinated because he wanted his children to be judged "by the content of their character."

But for dismantling racism, poverty & militarism.

He wanted corrective measures to eradicate racism, not the delusion that it doesn't exist."

(Alt text included in image).

https://x.com/berniceking/status/1746661202061586854

[soberscientistlife]

The 3 Black people killed by an avowed white supremacist/hater of Black people:

Anolt "AJ" Laguerre Jr., 19

Jerrald De'Shaun Gallon, 29

Angela Michelle Carr, 52

Our children need to be truthfully and lovingly educated so that they, too, won’t be indoctrinated.

@BerniceKing via Twitter

Say their names

[sbrown82]

I didn’t tell Ms Bernice but 🤭

https://x.com/berniceking/status/1744842781565112717?s=46&t=H1WNxKqJcb8tY5zETMBISw

Bernice said “y’all gone stop playing in my mama face!” 😆🥴

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Auntie Bernice said "Keep my Mama's name out ya mouth!"

I totally agree with her. Don't use her mother's name and legacy to make people think you love Black women. If he really wanted to have a woman with Mrs. King's qualities and character as a partner, why did he...?Nevermind...

blavity:

Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has addressed Jonathan Majors mentioning her family.⁠ King took spoke out against the actor mentioning her parents while discussing that his girlfriend, Meagan Good, has supported him during his domestic violence trial. ⁠During his chat with ABC anchor Linsey Davis, Majors explained that he wants the women in life to be like Coretta Scott King and called Good "an angel." King also included a link to an essay she wrote for HuffPost in 2017, which explores her mother’s tremendous and everlasting influence on the Black community, as well as her achievements prior to becoming a King and after her husband’s death.⁠ “She left her mark,” she wrote. #BerniceKing #JonathanMajors #CorettaScottKing #MLK

[cyarsk52-20]

Amy You’ve been read for filth by

@BerniceKing

, the daughter of the Civil Rights icon whose words you are misusing for your putrid agenda. I don’t know if you saw. It’s a whole thread. How utterly humiliating for you.

Plus for your ignorant self to quote MLK you’re not different than racists who quote MLK on MLK day.

She’s wicked

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Hi! I did an image description of the Bernice King tweet thread last year!

https://at.tumblr.com/weirdlylyricalnotes/id-a-twitter-thread-by-berniceking-it/6ia63t4g9exv

Oh, thankies! I don't remember posting the Bernice King tweet thread. But I reblogged your image Description.

(Honestly. I don't remember most of what I post. So the number of times I'm like "Who posted this. This is some amazing content. Oh shit. That was me." Is too often. 🥲)

-fae

[nadiasindi]

https://x.com/BerniceKing/status/1775901182894145887

[harperblue5]

DEXTER SCOTT KING! * DEXTER KING * #DEXTERKING #MLK #MARTINLUTHERKING #B...

[blaqsbi]

Post: Bernice King Calls Out Amy Schumer For Implying Father Would Support Bombing Palestinians https://www.blaqsbi.com/5uAH

[stephen-barry]

https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1674431391688450050?t=1I6y99qgLwhOsRbMKcPZIQ&s=19

[dfroza]

@BerniceKing

“No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

-Rosa Parks

4.8.23 • 1:28pm • Twitter

we are required to stand (or even sometimes sit) for something.

(and we have to choose what the treasure of the heart will be)

will we fear our Creator above man?

there have been many systems of control and enslavement in this world, and there’s the modern-day enslavement of trafficking humans with people who exercise demonic power over others to take advantage of their bodies. this is sick and disgusting behavior. this world is full of oppression that rules by fear.

this cannot go on forever.

and it won’t.

people make their stand and there are people rescuing others from their oppressors, sometimes by necessary force.

it matters what we are actually standing for. whether righteous, or not. the truth of Love at its Source determines human morality. we either abide by these things, or reject them.

And beautiful Heaven is full of True children who are daughters & sons of our Creator (our heavenly Father) who are each known by their conceived gender in the sacred womb. from every tribe and tongue and skin color of garden earth.

(the Son is the only door of grace we will ever know into this)

A reflective view of downtown Grand Rapids

@ToursAroundMI: Dec 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks was sitting on a bus seat made at @americanseating in Grand Rapids when she began the Montgomery bus boycott. This statue honors her civil rights work.

#CityTour #ArtTour #HistoryTour #GroupTour #BlackHistory #CulturalTour #ExperienceGR #ExperienceLife

12.1.19 • 3:56pm • Twitter

we’re not meant to break the “rules” of Love which definitely conflict with some rules made by man. the Spirit wars against the fallen nature of the flesh.

(rebirth is vital)

the 4th track on the 1988 album Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk (1997 remaster)

Inheritance

One day, earth will return to its True nature. it will be fully restored to peace by our beautiful mysterious Creator

(it will become a heavenly world)

@earthskyscience

Barry Medlin in Hahira, Georgia, captured this image of a house finch on Tuesday. Thank you, Barry! 🐦📸

Have a good image of your own you'd like to share? Send it in to us!

4.8.23 • 11:06am • Twitter

@RedwoodNPS

“I must go in, the fog is rising” - Emily Dickinson

[Image description: Morning fog snakes its way through the crowns of giant coastal redwood trees above Elam Creek in Redwood National Park.]

[Photo used with permission: M. Forster]

4.8.23 • 11:00am • Twitter