Learning From Dr. King and Confronting Gay White "Pinkwashing" in Israel

Only 26 percent of white Americans supported Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966. As a white Jewish American, I try to hold on to that truth more tightly even than the sepia-toned memory of Abraham Joshua Heschel at King's side. What can I learn, what can I use, in organizing for justice today, with the knowledge of how rare white solidarity with the Black-led struggle for freedom was and is. As a white Jew, it feels critical to interrogate where and how King's adversaries and their legacy might be alive today in our world, in our movements, in ourselves.  Read more.

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