Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nation of Islam Minister, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) R.I.P.

Many of our leaders throughout the long history of the sojourning of the children of Yisrael in the captivity (exile) particularly in N. AmeriKKKa, have had to battle for the very survival of our people, while simultaneously working on better future for us.

Although Malcolm and Martin clearly did not respect each others doctrines regarding the instructions that our people should follow when fighting the institutional oppression of our people, and the individual miscreants responsible for legislating, administering, and enforcing that oppression, they were still able to agree that our people were in a war, thel oss of which, might result in the complete genocide of the so-called American Negro man, woman, and child.

THE KING YOU NEVER KNEW

 The now famous "I HAVE A DREAM" speech in which Dr. King spoke of the hope of a unified America, was not a speech given at, or even near the end of his career, which ended tragically on  April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. It was given on the August 28, 1963 at the march on Washington, 5-years prior to his death.

Here are some of the radical changes that Dr. King underwent, between the time he expressed his hopes of integration in 1963, and his lynching in 1968.

 MLK in 1966 after having visited the black ghettos of New York, said to Stokely Carmichael: 

 “Black Power, in its broad and positive meaning, is a call to black people to amass the political and economic strength to achieve their legitimate goals.  No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power. 

L-R: Floyd McKissic, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Stokely Carmichael

"Indeed, one of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power.  From the old plantations of the South to the newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. …The plantation and the ghetto were created by those who had power both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their powerlessness.  The problem of transforming the ghetto is, therefore, a problem of power – a confrontation between the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to preserving the status quo.”

Dr. King and Stokely Carmichael worked allies after that.

 Also in 1966 MLK met with the Hon. Elijah Muhammad.

Once in the North, away from the gentrified mannerisms of Southern Negro life, Dr. King quickly learned what Malcolm was so angry about, yet both he,and the Masonic Fraternal Order called "The Nation of Islam" continued to speak in veiled messages, and half-truths about a mater they were all very well versed in. They knew who the true children of Yisrael are, and they knew who their oppressors were.

MLK in 1967: The "WhereDo We Go From Here" Speech

"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name."

AND WE ARE THAT PEOPLE THAT DOES NOT KNOW THE NAME: YAHOWAH ELOHIYM OF ABRAHAM, YITZCHAQ AND YA'AQOB (JEHOVAH GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB).

FINALLY, HERE IS THE SPEECH THAT IS SO OFTEN CONFUSED WITH THE 1963 "I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH.

IT ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE ON APRIL 3, 1968 IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE. DR. KING WOULD BE DEAD BY 6 P.M.THAT VERY SAME DAY.

 MLK on April 3,  1966

THE MOUNTAIN TOP SPEECH

"…And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out..."

"What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers...""…Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead"

"But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind."

"…Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now."

"…I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you."

"…But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."

"…So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...

Many of our leaders, men who have hazarded their lives, and even died during the struggle to see conditions improve for our people, often held positions that were not popularized by the press.

Often, their most controversial statements and views were left largely unsung, leaving a skewed perspective... their true passions being excluded from the historical records. Especially with regard to their desire to dwell in the land that the Creator of all nations left to them for an inheritance.

For surly they knew that the Creator of Heaven and Earth (regardless of what else they believed) had, at the start, given an inheritance to all nations, and set the the boundaries thereof in righteousness.

They fought hard to improve the conditions of our people in this country, and even spoke of our former identity, and another land.

D'varim 32:7-8 (Deuteronomy)
[7] Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
[8] When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Yisrael.

As Malcolm X put it:

"We believe in the resurrection of the dead.

We believe that the 20 million black people in America in the last day will be taught the truth.

The trumpet of truth will sound in your ear, as its being sounding today.

The trumpet of truth, and as truth strikes your ear, it strikes your heart, it will open your eyes, it will open your ears, it will make you stand up.

It will do the same thing for you that truth did for the dry bones in the valley, because the picture of dry bones in the valley is talking about you, the picture of Lazarus laying dead four days is talking about you

You are Lazarus, you are the dry bones, you are the prodigal son, you are the lost sheep.

You are the people about whom the Bible is speaking who will stand up in the last days when the trumpet is sounded.

Black people are waking up, black people are standing up, black people are rising up."

Qoheleth 7:7-8 (Ecclesiates)
[7] Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

1st Ezrah 3:16 (Apocrypha)
And he said, Call the young men, and they shall declare their own sentences. So they were called, and came in.

B'reshith 49:9 (Genesis)
Yehudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

 D'varim 33:7 (Deuteronomy)
And this is the blessing of Yehudah: and he said, Hear, YHWH, the voice of Yehudah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

Shophtim 1:2 (Judges)
And YAHOWAH said, Yehudah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

Yashiyahu 43:22-24 (Isaiah)
[22] But thou hast not called upon me, O Ya'aqob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Yisrael.
[23] Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
[24] Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

Yashiyahu 34:5-8 (Isaiah)
[5] For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
[6] The sword of YAHOWAH is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for YAHOWAH hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
[7] And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
[8] For it is the day of YAHOWAH's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Tziyon.

Mal`akiy 1:1-5 (Malachi)
[1] The burden of the word of YAHOWAH to Yisrael by Malachi.
[2] I have loved you, saith YAHOWAH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esav Ya'aqob's brother? saith YAHOWAH: yet I loved Ya'aqob,
[3] And I hated Esav, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
[4] Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith YAHOWAH tsabaoth, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Esau hath indignation for ever.
[5] And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, YAHOWAH will be magnified from the border of Yisrael.

Yashiyahu 34:5-8 (Isaiah)
[5] For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
[6] The sword of YAHOWAH is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for YAHOWAH hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
[7] And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
[8] For it is the day of YAHOWAH's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Tziyon.

 "…I came home, and my wife was in the bed and I immediately crawled into bed to get some rest to get up early the next morning to try to keep things going.

And immediately the telephone started ringing and I picked it up. On the other end was an ugly voice.

That voice said to me, in substance, "Nigger, we are tired of you and your mess now.

And if you aren’t out of this town in three days, we’re going to blow your brains out and blow up your house."

April 2, 1966..

"Dr. King and the SCLC leadership left Memphis, but King felt the need to return to demonstrate that nonviolent protest had not lost its effectiveness.

The SCLC made plans to return to Memphis and stay, once again, in the Lorraine Motel on April 3.

King planned a nonviolent march in Memphis on April 8, to refocus attention on the sanitation workers strike.

However, as he arrived in Memphis, King was served with a restraining order from a federal judge barring the march, which the civil rights leader planned to challenge in court the next day."

[1] And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
[2] And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
[3] And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yehowcef was bound.
[4] And the captain of the guard charged Yehowcef with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
[5] And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
[6] And Yehowcef came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
[7] And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
[8] And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to Elohiym? tell me them, I pray you.

 King: on "Bull Connor"

"And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air."

And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can.

And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome."

And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs.

And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham. Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that."

STRANGE FRUIT

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South, the bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, and the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for a tree to drop, here is a strange and bitter crop.

-Billie (Lady Day) Holiday

 April 3, 1966…

 "Dr. King spent the evening of April 3 into the early hours of April 4 in a strategy session with aides, and at about 4:30 a.m. he returned to the Lorraine where his brother, the Rev. A.D. Williams King, Georgia Davis and Lucie Ward met him.

The two brothers spent about a half-hour with the women before Martin Luther King Jr. returned to the room he was sharing with the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

Thirty minutes after returning to his room, King once again met with Davis in a separate room. He remained there for about an hour before returning to his own room."

 April 3, 1966…

 James Earl ray Ray selected a Model 760 30-06 caliber rifle. He had the Redfield scope mounted on the new Model 760.

The 30-06 is the type of rifle Ray was trained on in the army, and fires the army-specified Springfield 30-06 cartridge, featuring a 150-grain bullet, which exerts 2,370 foot-pounds of force at 100 yards.

"Accuracy is there: crisp trigger and precision rifling, helping you put that buck in the freezer," Remington Arms wrote about their fastest non-automatic big game rifle.

The new rifle cost Ray $265.85.

April 3, 1966…

 At 6 p.m., King and Abernathy emerged from their second-story room onto the balcony of the Lorraine. King initiated a conversation with his driver, Solomon Jones, about the weather and Jones advised King to grab a coat, as the weather was turning chilly. King acknowledged Jones' comment and started to turn toward his room. At that instant, Jones later told authorities that he heard a sound he assumed to be a firecracker and noticed King falling to the floor of the balcony. Jones called for help and King's aides, who were all nearby, rushed to the stricken civil rights leader.

The bullet struck King near his jaw, fracturing his lower mandible, severing the jugular vein, vertebral and subclavian arteries and shattering several vertebrae in his neck and back.

Dr. Martin Luther King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital at 7:05 p.m.

 "Death was the result of a gunshot wound to the chin and neck with a fatal transection of the lower cervical and upper thoracic spinal cord and other structures in the neck," wrote Dr. J.T. Francisco, the county medical examiner, in his official autopsy report.

B'reshith 49:8 (Genesis)
Yehudah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

Yehowchanan 10:11-15 (John)
[11] I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
[12] But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
[13] The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
[14] I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
[15] As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.