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Column Preview: Climate, Migration, Reaction Are Not Isolated Problems
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to describe three evils as he attempted to link the main issues facing the nation and its most oppressed people: racism, violence, and poverty. King’s argument was that the three were linked, that they operated as the three stools of a White Supremacist stool. His definitions of racism might have seemed obvious — as a civil rights leader, he obviously was demanding justice and equality for Black Americans, but he also saw racism playing out on the international stage, including in Vietnam and Africa where non-whites were being subjected to violent rule by colonial powers. Violence meant police violence and military violence (See “Beyond Vietnam”), and poverty was both economic and a form of racist control and violence. These three evils were connected.
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Sadly, we have never fully embraced King’s argument, and we now are dealing with additional evils — racism, violence, and poverty, to be sure, but also environmental decay and climate change, and widespread forced migration and internal displacement — that are intertwined and driving us to calamity.
That is the focus of my upcoming column for The Progressive Populist, which I include below for paying subscribers to this newsletter. My last column was “Save the Humanities.”
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