From the American Revolution to the Negro American Revolution

How lies lulled America to sleep … and how we can awaken to build an Inclusive America

Unarmed protesters in 1968 are met by the US military in Memphis, TN while elevating awareness of the plight of sanitation workers. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He had traveled to the city in support of this campaign.

When Senator Bernie Sanders told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on June 10 that his presidential campaign was launching a political revolution, I took notice. It was the first time since Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership during the tumultuous 1960s that I had heard any influential voice on a national stage speak sincerely about a societal revolution. Bernie said:

“What this campaign is about is if you want real change we need a political revolution. What does that mean? It means we’re going to have to take on Wall Street and the insurance companies and the drug companies and the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex.

“At the end of the day, to understand why we are where we are with the middle class shrinking, with 40 million living in poverty, we have to understand the political reality of America and the power structure of America.”

Rachel Maddow interviews 2020 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders on July 10, 2019