“If you are beaten tomorrow you must turn the other cheek.” -Martin Luther King Jr., March 8, 1965. 📌Scenes from Bloody Sunday, 60 years ago this weekend. 📌Never forget ... ✊🏼 (Photos: Spider Martin/Briscoe Center for American History) - ThreadSky

dearlstephens.bsky.social • 2 days ago

“If you are beaten tomorrow you must turn the other cheek.”
-Martin Luther King Jr., March 8, 1965.

📌Scenes from Bloody Sunday, 60 years ago this weekend.

📌Never forget ...

✊🏼

(Photos: Spider Martin/Briscoe Center for American History)

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illumination83.bsky.social•2 days ago

Never Forget!!

manleypeebles.bsky.social•2 days ago

With all due respect to Jesus and MLK, there are limits to loving thy enemy.

supertech54.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think MLK would have to rethink some of his strategy today.

jwski.bsky.social•2 days ago

I believe in non-violent approaches. With adversaries that have a conscience that can be appealed to, it can work. For the morally depraved adversary, something much stronger must be deployed. Unfortunately...

dpc1zspeaking.bsky.social•2 days ago

They were some brave souls!

johnfrompa.bsky.social•2 days ago

There has to be more graphic images than this. Anybody got something I can use for my fb profile?

lee-in-iowa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seeing these events play out on television in my childhood made me the liberal and activist that I am.

We’d been lied to, told America was good, police were good, —and we saw graphically that it wasn’t true.

dearlstephens.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me, too, Lee.
We chose to believe our eyes.
Cheers, friend

eastcoastbiker2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

The power of video, always have someone videotaping every interaction with the law.

mkd55.bsky.social•2 days ago

No. Going high just gets you stepped on.
Punch back. Always punch back.

dearlstephens.bsky.social•2 days ago

Such stupid bravado.
Most of America hated King at the time.
To walk across that bridge arm and arm was one of the most important acts of defiance in U.S. history.
And an enormous act of bravery.
Please show some damn respect.

mkd55.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or is this what you believe? That in this current environment, of fascism rising? That we should turn the other cheek?

mkd55.bsky.social•2 days ago

I agree, please don't misunderstand me. At the time, turning the other cheek was a message, and perhaps the right call. Now? I don't think so. Standing up and smacking down is what people understand. MAGA will only abuse turning the other cheek. No disrespect intended.