#OnThisDay #60YearsAgo Dr #MartinLutherKing wrote #LetterFromBirminghamJail, which The Atlantic later published. It’s always worth rereading but now seems particularly appropriate.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/letter-from-a-birmingham-jail/552461

“One day the South will recognize its real heroes.”
#martinlutherking #letterfrombirminghamjail #TennesseeThree #tennessee #thejustins #justinjones #justinpearson

@ericjwrites The intentional lack of awareness of the white male "independent".

#LetterFromBirminghamJail was written 60 years ago, precisely for you.

Carefully read it and take the necessary time to internalize its message and how it applies directly to you.

Use that self-awareness to become a consciously aware person so you can perhaps actually become the ally you mistakenly believe yourself to already be. You are not yet so.

To be an ally requires true awareness:

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html