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Did Dr. MLK Jr. support Israel? Ep 2801 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program. I'm Gary
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  Speaker 1: McCann's thank you for joining. The question is did doctor
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior support Israel? AP reporter Terry Tang
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  Speaker 1: she wrote an interesting article. She said, the Reverend Martin
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  Speaker 1: Luther King Junior gave his iconic I Have a Dream
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  Speaker 1: speech in nineteen sixty three on the steps of the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor
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  Speaker 1: President Abraham Lincoln as a great American In Who's somebolic
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  Speaker 1: shallow we stand today? Now? Millions of people on are
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  Speaker 1: King in the same way today on the third Monday
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  Speaker 1: of January, close to King's January fifteenth birthday, And respectfully,
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  Speaker 1: I made asthma, but loved Brother Michael's absent from the
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  Speaker 1: body felleral, State and local government institutions in various industries
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  Speaker 1: recognized rightly the King during the day. For some, the
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  Speaker 1: holiday is just that time off from work or school.
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  Speaker 1: But King's family and others carrying on his legacy of equality,
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  Speaker 1: justice and nonviolent protests. One Americans to remember that this
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  Speaker 1: holiday is really about helping others. While it is now
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  Speaker 1: a time on a tradition, the establishment of the holiday
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  Speaker 1: had a prolonged difficult path to acceptance. Now I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to insert some questions, hopefully for you to ponder for
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  Speaker 1: your own individual life, irrespective of your age and irrespective
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  Speaker 1: where you live at, because there may be people in
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  Speaker 1: your own life that is trying to help others. But
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  Speaker 1: the question is how did the idea for M. LK Day?
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  Speaker 1: It began as an answered by Terry tag. The idea
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  Speaker 1: to establish the national holiday for the civil rights icon
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  Speaker 1: arose as the nation was plunged into grief. US Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Representative John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest serving
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress known for his liberal stance on civil rights,
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  Speaker 1: proposed legislation to recognize King four days after his assassination
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  Speaker 1: outside of motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April the fourth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight. Now keep in mind, as I share
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  Speaker 1: this is twenty twenty five January the twentieth supporters knew
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  Speaker 1: would not be easy. King, who was thirty nine years
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  Speaker 1: old at the time, was a polarizing figure to have
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  Speaker 1: the country even before his death, said Maron Martin, director
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  Speaker 1: of the Martin Luther King Junior Research and Educational Institute
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  Speaker 1: at Stanford University. Polls conducted by The Washington Post and
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  Speaker 1: or New York Times indicated most Americans did not trust
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  Speaker 1: King or thought he was too radical because of his
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  Speaker 1: speeches on poverty, housing, and against the Vietnam War. People
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  Speaker 1: say that King was moving too fast after nineteen sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: and basically, hey, you got the voting rights bill done,
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  Speaker 1: that's enough, Martin said, I want to interject. I think
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  Speaker 1: about that and look around today where you lived at,
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  Speaker 1: especially as relates to poverty, especially as relates to housing,
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  Speaker 1: housing poverty. And how about the conflicts abroad? But what's
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  Speaker 1: interesting for me, I don't know about you. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about for me, Hey, you got the voting rights bill done.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough. Think about that. How many individuals who have
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  Speaker 1: benefited from the civil rights build passages that reality, said
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  Speaker 1: American Black suffered for leading up to Let me continue
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  Speaker 1: with the article. The Congressional Black Cart is founded by Conyers,
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  Speaker 1: tried to bring the legislation up for it vote for
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  Speaker 1: the next fifteen years. Among the Republican rebuttals, public holidays
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  Speaker 1: don't apply to private citizens. King was a commoners or
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  Speaker 1: King was a womanizer. In the meantime, his widow, Coreta
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  Speaker 1: Scott King kept lobbying for it. Musician Stephen Wonder even
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  Speaker 1: released the song Happy Birthday to rally support. So what change.
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  Speaker 1: By the nineteen eighties, the social and culture climbing in
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  Speaker 1: the United States had shifted, and the public was reflecting
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  Speaker 1: on racial progress. Now, think about it in nineteen eighties,
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  Speaker 1: it's now twenty twenty five. What's the environment today here
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  Speaker 1: in the United States? In your country or yours as
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  Speaker 1: relates to racial progress? Most American Now we're also regretting
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  Speaker 1: the Vietnam War supporters. Meanwhile, we're still calling for a
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  Speaker 1: federal holiday status, says Martin in nineteen eighty three, about
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  Speaker 1: twenty years after King's I have a dream speech legislation
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  Speaker 1: for Martin Luther King Junor Day. On the third Monday
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  Speaker 1: of January clear Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.
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  Speaker 1: States held back as activists stepped up. Reagan signing did
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  Speaker 1: not lead other Republicans to follow. It would be more
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  Speaker 1: It would be seventeen more years until all fifty states
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  Speaker 1: observed it. Most of the foot Dragon came from the South,
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  Speaker 1: except for Arizona. Then, in nineteen eighty seven, Governor Evan
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  Speaker 1: Meacham rescinded his predecessor's executive order and acting at stayed holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me again interject im partially don't favor no
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  Speaker 1: sides but the right side. And God, why did it
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  Speaker 1: take a Republican president to sign off? Well, let's continue
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  Speaker 1: with this story that Terry Tang has writen about. He said,
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  Speaker 1: black people don't need a holiday, you don't need jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Recall doctor Warren H. Stuart, senior pastor at first Institutional
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  Speaker 1: Baptist Church in Phoenix that started the war. Stuart launched
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  Speaker 1: a group to lead people of all colors and all
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  Speaker 1: persuasion faiths and parties in protest marches. Entertainers, including Wondered
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  Speaker 1: councilor Arizona Events companies moved conventions. The tipping point was
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  Speaker 1: the loss of hosting the Super Bowl. In nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona became the first state where voter initiative rental stated
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  Speaker 1: the King holidays. Notice how the peopful, irrespective of skin tone,
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  Speaker 1: irrespective of faith, irrespective of political parties, joined with the
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  Speaker 1: common cause. Notice it affected money, the money of the
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  Speaker 1: people that was running the system for back of the
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  Speaker 1: little word lack of a better word. But let's continue.
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  Speaker 1: Supporters took a victory lap the next MLK Day with
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  Speaker 1: the pack of rental concert attended by wonder Steve. You
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  Speaker 1: wanted an artists even Rosa Park was there. Stuart remembers
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the crowd what I said there and this
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  Speaker 1: still applies today. We've won the holiday, for the holiday
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  Speaker 1: is the symbol of liberty and justice for all, and
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  Speaker 1: we must move from symbol to substance, he said. South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina was the final holdout until two thousand way mante
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  Speaker 1: Now it's twenty twenty five. But it also was without
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  Speaker 1: the backing of the civil rights groups because it also
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  Speaker 1: allowed for a Confederate Memorial Day correct us. Scot King
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  Speaker 1: once said, the greatest birthday gift my husband could receive
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  Speaker 1: is that people of all racial and ethnic background celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the holiday by performing individual acts kindness through service to others.
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  Speaker 1: So let me ask you, you don't mind do it
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  Speaker 1: today rather than just apart from just attending breakfasts and
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  Speaker 1: functions and so forth. As relates to doctor Martin Luther
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  Speaker 1: King Jr. And what his wife, Coreta Scott King once said,
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  Speaker 1: are you performing any individual acts of kindness through service
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  Speaker 1: to others that's around you? The Reverend Bernice King and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of the King Center in Atlanta, desires as well.
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  Speaker 1: She wishes people would do more than quote King, which
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  Speaker 1: we love to do. They need to do good work
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  Speaker 1: and commit daily to embrace the spirit of non Vine.
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  Speaker 1: Martin also thinks it's important to learn about the man himself.
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  Speaker 1: He finds an excitement in seeing people read or hear
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  Speaker 1: about the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but nothing compares to
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  Speaker 1: taking in King's own writings, such as his nineteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: three letter from the Birmingham Jail. He added, we can
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  Speaker 1: arm ourselves with his ideas. Martin said, we can continue
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  Speaker 1: to have conversation with him, not just on one day,
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  Speaker 1: but actually throughout the year. But my question still remained,
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior. Support Israel. Let's turn to the
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  Speaker 1: All Israel News, published by our brother in Christ Joe
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  Speaker 1: Rosenberg and narrated by Kayla Sprays.
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