Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Jamaica

[Xavier]

Here is a description of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Jamaica on June 20, 1965



Source: Jamaican Gleaner

June 20, 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. visits Jamaica

"If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper"
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965, Kingston, Jamaica

You could say that it was Anthony Allen's dream to have the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King visit Jamaica. Allen, then a medical student at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and a member of the Chapel Management Committee, was one of those who nominated Dr. King to deliver the sermon at the 1965 valedictory service. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 20, 1965 that dream came true, as the Rev. Dr. King arrived in Jamaica along with his wife, Coretta.

Hilary Sherlock, daughter of Sir Philip Sherlock (then UWI's Vice-Chancellor), remembers accompanying her parents to the airport to meet Dr. and Mrs. King. A self-described child of the sixties, this was not the first time Hilary had seen Dr. King.

As a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, Hilary had taken part in numerous civil rights marches and had heard Dr. King speak in person before. She, along with countless others, admired him for his leadership of one of the most crucial movements in American history.

Read the rest at the Jamaican Gleaner

[johnnycakes]

Re: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Jamaica


"If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper"
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965, Kingston, Jamaica


thanks Xavier,

What a truly socialist thing for the Rev. King to have said.
It is the respect and showing of solidarity with those who do the dirty work that is necessary in a society that he reflected in that passage.

The capitalists would say that they would not even think of doing the kind of work that would get their hands dirty and that is the anti-worker sort of thinking that goes hand in glove with capitalism.

But then Martin was no friend of capitalism or the racism and imperialism it engenders.

[Sinco01]

Re: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Jamaica

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
&quot;If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper&quot;
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965, Kingston, Jamaica


thanks Xavier,

What a truly socialist thing for the Rev. King to have said.
It is the respect and showing of solidarity with those who do the dirty work that is necessary in a society that he reflected in that passage.

The capitalists would say that they would not even<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold"> think of doing the kind of work that would get their hands di</span>rty</span> and that is the anti-worker sort of thinking that goes hand in glove with capitalism.

But then Martin was no friend of capitalism or the racism and imperialism it engenders. </div></div>


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