By: Mohammed Khaku Allentown
The weapon of neo-imperialism is “dollarism.” The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: Every year in the month of January we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s (MLK) day without pondering or contemplating the true message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We engage in empty or futile rituals of song, dance, and flowery speeches in his memory over the years. We have built statues, monuments, and named streets in his honor while erasing the immense gravity of his message. If you ask ten youths to name the best speech of Dr. MLK one will respond, “I have a dream” speech. However, Dr. King’s legacy is immeasurable and yet not many youths know about MLK. He wrote ve books. He gave as many as 450 speeches, but many of his dreams and hopes for our country don’t get the attention they deserve.
Today, there are governors and school board members who are restricting education of slavery, the civil rights movement, Jim Crow, and teaching of Dr. MLK history in schools. Since January 2021, researcher Je rey Sachs says, 35 states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach with regard to race, American history, and politics. MLK’s speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” was the last sermon of Dr. MLK before his assassination delivered on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee.
His speech is so relevant as it was some 56 years ago to our present-day genocide in the holy land of Palestine. However, Malcom X was extremely forthright about Zionism. Read the article in the Egyptian Gazette, Sept. 17, 1964, title Zionist Logic: The weapon of neo-imperialism is “dollarism.” e Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: https://www. marxists.org/history/ etol/newspape/ socialist-viewpointus/mayjun_05/ mayjun_05_21.htm Dr. King spoke beyond the subject of the injustices felt by city sanitation workers who were on strike and demonstrating.
His sermon was meant to inspire the sanitary workers in spite of the immediate threat of death and prosecution. One can see that today where anyone demonstrating or boycotting against Zionist regime and there is fear of being red from their job or prosecuted for antiSemitic. e “mountaintop” speech was a symbol used by Dr. King of four civic virtues of struggle, hope, patience, and submission to the will of God.
