{"id":2747,"date":"2020-01-22T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:00:42","slug":"angela-davis-brings-the-vitality-of-dr-kings-ideas-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/angela-davis-brings-the-vitality-of-dr-kings-ideas-to-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Davis brings the vitality of Dr. King\u2019s Ideas to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Albaugh – YAN – Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe conscious of an awakened activist cannot be satisfied with the focus on local problems,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIf only because they see that local problems are all interconnected with world problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angela Davis is a complex figure \u2013 once, she was accused of being a part of a hostage situation-gone-bad in a California courthouse during the most bitter years of the long Civil Rights Movement. Davis has maintained her controversial status in order to bring radical politics to the forefront of the fight for justice in America.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no surprise that the University of Michigan Ann Arbor has asked her to address an audience of hundreds for their annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day Symposium. The focus of her hour-long speech was on injustice in the world.<\/p>\n

For Davis and many other activists throughout the United States, Dr. King stands as a pillar of inspiration for their work. Dr. King was a radical for asking Americans to imagine a better future. With his \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d Speech in Washington D.C., he asked the young and idealistic of the country to dream of truth and justice in the coming ages.<\/p>\n

As the aging Angela Davis addressed the audience in Ann Arbor, she talked about the most important lesson that Dr. King gave her and many other youth in that time: the work is never going to be finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had not, during the era of Dr. King, begun to realize how much more we would learn about injustice in the world,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s talked about islamophobia. Anti-Semitism. Racism. And the past and future of Apartheid in the world. Without a pause for breath, she brazenly called attention to those states, institutions and corporations that we all have to fight against for the world to finally look toward Dr. King\u2019s Dream.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 52 years since Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. Throughout the last years of his life, he\u2019s worked against injustice for the African American people. But like Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Viola Liuzzo, his life was taken.<\/p>\n

MLK day is not to remember the man. Instead, it\u2019s to remember his dream. \u201cI have a dream that one day this Nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,\u2019\u201d Dr. King said.<\/p>\n

Angela Davis has spent her life working toward the goals that she felt belonged to Dr. King and America. As a professor in California, she\u2019s worked to bring the next generation of leaders to the next generation of challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so what we most need now is to generate hope,\u201d Davis said. \u201cHope that must be continually regenerated, reinvigorated, and this, I think, is the collective challenge of today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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