Re: [A-List] Re: History and Sacrificial Death/MLK and sex as history

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

Why was Dr. King Jr. murdered? 
 
For pretty much the same reason as Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other  leaders 
- (who died in terrorists attacks, police violence, illegal and extra  legal 
terror): to disorient and break the spiritual, moral and passion of the  
social movement of which they were a part. 
 
Without question Dr. King is a historical figure in American history,  
different and larger than  say Fred Hampton. King's fisher net captured  more dreams 
than Fred's. Fishers of men with large nets weigh more loftier than  he of 
lesser net, even when the lesser man's dream is larger. Ones role in  history is 
subject to change as history changes itself. Historical markers are  not 
changed on the whims of history. 
 
Because what happened  . . . . actually happened. King is a book mark  in the 
book of history, because America looms large in "this history" as we live  
the past and future/present. Because America looms large in "this history" a  
large mark is left in history's book of books. This large mark is called a  
"footprint" by my barbarians stepping on the world, but it is really a mark and  
King is inside of this mark because he is an American. 
 
To state that Dr. King was a great historical figure and genuine "man of  the 
people" is so obvious that it is never debated amongst the American peoples  
and not just blacks. Dr. King Jr. is recorded in world history as a man of 
peace  in a most violent country with a history written in blood ink on a 
parchment of  genocide. History is in fact measured by blood and/or its lack of it. 
Everywhere  King went blood flowed and jail doors opened and shut with that 
bone chilling  clang. 
 
Riot sticks, Billy clubs and handcuffs (Negro cufflinks) would come out,  and 
the DJ would announce over loudspeakers: "assume the position nigger." 
 
Damn. 
 
Martin Luther King Jr. was great in history, rather than infamous, as say  
Adolph Hitler, whose glorifiers continue to get much self space in bookstores  
throughout America. This is not to say that King has been compared to Hitler.  
The point is to establish a parameter. 
 
There is a deep distrust and suspicion among African Americans and I would  
suspect, the majority of the people of earth, towards ideological doctrines and 
 proclamations attempting to elevate the sexual prerogatives of historical 
figure  to heights that eclipse that, which cast them as historical figure in 
the first  place. 
 
King's sex-escapades, were at no point ever a secret!!! . . .  amongst  of 
the black elite and intelligentsia and that segment African American masses  
tasked with carrying out the indispensable administrative and organizational  
imperatives. It is by way of the inherent nature of administration and at that  
time, the close physical proximity of various amongst blacks, that "those  
masses'" became aware of the most personal aspects of Dr. King's personality.  And 
a huge section of these masses loved him. 
 
There is a deep distrust and suspicion towards ideological doctrines and  
pronouncements elevating sexual prerogatives of historical figure to heights  
that eclipse that, which cast them as historical figure in the first place. 
 
An example is in order. 
 
The sexual behavior of an Abraham Lincoln, his relationship with his wife  
and children, can in no way distract from him being a historical figure as  
leader. Historical figures become historical (as the passionate 1, individual  
that is many and live in the heart of minds of the masses) because they signify  
a marker or bookmark in the stream of history. 
 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is such a man. 
 
This love of the man, this uplifting passion and adulation towards this man  
by men and women alike is a living material force. This did not prevent bitter 
 resistance amongst a sizable segment of the black population against the  
political strategy of SCLC, whose paramount leader at that time was  Dr.King.  
There was also tremendous resistance concerning how issues were  formulated, 
but very little resistance to the vision he reviewed and invited the  masses to 
inspect. 
 
"I"  . . . (the individual man) . . .  Have A Dream and is  recorded in 
American history as oratory of the highest and most passionate  order. It is the 
challenge to "Dream" that leaders take to the masses and the  vehicle of the 
vision. 
 
The historical marker that Dr. King Jr., manifest is called "the Second  
Civil War" or building the living infrastructure for the completion and  
affirmation of the vision - not cause, of the Civil War. 
 
After the Confederate States of America were defeated on the battlefield,  
the fight for the vision Lincoln articulated as goals for the revolutionary  
masses, entered the next phase. The vision was a "nation" - (rather than a  
federated collection of states called "Union") conceived in liberty and  dedicated 
that all men were equal.  This call for liberty . . . bitterly  resisted by 
the Slave Power during the first Revolutionary War, was the country  first 
assault against the democratic order that allows slavery. 
 
The 14th amendment to the Constitution was passed to establish the legal  
basis to undo the compromise with the Slave Power in the Constitution. Hence,  
the 14th amendment is called the "Second Constitution" by legal minds and  
constitutional scholars. 
 
Jim Crow was exported from the North, or rather imported by Southern  
reaction and the promise of the Second Constitution was shelved The battle would  
have to be fought again, confirming the revolutionary dialectic expounded by a  
segment of American communists. 
 
One of the features of revolution in the U. S. and elsewhere is that each  
revolution, in its political and budding material features expressed as a new  
form of laboring, creates the conditions for the next one. The cause - goal, in 
 the Revolutionary War was independence. The vision was stated in the 
Declaration  of Independence: all men are created equal and endowed with certain 
inalienable  rights by their maker: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 
Vision -  (liberty/freedom), and cause - (freedom,independence), were at 
loggerhead and  birthed in political antagonism. 
 
Since that vision was not fulfilled, another revolution more deeply rooted  
in the dream - vision, became the inevitable consequence. 
 
What happens to a dream deferred? How is the interested compounded? 
 
The cause in the Civil War was to preserve the Union. Implicitly, that  meant 
âthe Unionâ under the unrestricted domination of Northern industrial  
capitalists. But the vision as stated by Lincoln was a ânation conceived in  libertyâ
 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The  
changing economic base that created the North's passion for revolution had not  yet 
been sufficiently developed for the dream to exceed the boundary of the  
vision, or rather,  the revolution could not realize its vision. 
 
It must then fight again. 
 
The vision of one revolution becomes the cause of the next.. 
 
Unraveling the revolutionary dialectic (standing on the shoulders of the  
Hegelian passion, that was Marx dancing dialectic of impulse) allows a framework  
to understand Dr. King Jr. - (the individual 1), as a historical marker, 
because  Marx disclosed for all to see naked truth between the one of many. King's 
vision  was the truth of his dream and both rooted in the bloody soil of 
American  history. 
 
There she stands unclothed, with breath taking beauty. Is she not passion?  
Her beauty makes us who we are and her freedom makes us free. 
 
Dr. King's real life and social laboring on behalf of a very real and  
powerful reform movement, and as a living testament (not victim) spans from  roughly 
1952 to his death, and includes the gun-less first bullet fired in  
Montgomery (the Negroes Fort Sumter); the passage of the Voting Rights Act,  
anti-lynching legislation and countless local ordinances outlawing segregation  and 
designed to make the vision flesh. 
 
The set of the final stage (last act my friend) to realize the vision of  the 
Civil War and the "Second Constitution." 
 
The name Martin Luther King Jr., is forever inexplicably bound up with  
historical markers, along with the name Malcolm X, and the black and white  masses 
in American understand why. 
 
It was in fact MLK and his leadership that fought many of the early battles  
that widen the breach allowing for the reform of the system, inspiring the 
Black  Student Movement, that in turn served as a catalyst for groups like the 
SDS and  the anti-war movement. Actually, it was the militant bravery of the 
African  American people - Montgomery, who have battle non-stop against and 
despite all  odds, that created the ground spread for the reawakening of America to 
 revolutionary Marxism in the mid and late fifties and 1960's. 
 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. . . . . of course, gave a prominent and national  
voice to the anti-war movement, after the edifice of the vision was under  
construction. Then his eyes shifted and the pupils narrowed on poverty . . . .  
which every man of the South understands only to well. 
 
Reform movements by definition lack the revolutionary sweep of vision  
because the dream is to militantly adjust - re-form-u-late . . . . (its always  late 
by definition of itself), the moral and legal relations between and within  
classes, without changing the property relations. Many who fight for reform,  
possess individual vision that exceeds the boundary of the reform dream state  
being made flesh. 
 
King of course was a leader in and of this social movement for reform,  which 
in turn contains an internal social logic crying out for and bleeding  
re-form-u-late. The historical logic is inescapable and in the quiet, one can  hear 
Kansas bleeding. The sound of "Bloody Kansas bleeding" momentarily eclipse  
sounds from the Trail of Tears - the million drops of pain, and again we are  
informed we will have to fight the same battle again. 
 
My friend . . . can the same battle be fought? 
 
All social movements have leaders or they cannot be expressed in the realm  
of politics as constitutional crisis or crisis of the existing political  
superstructure or crisis in reality. In a bourgeois democratic order crisis is  
expressed . . . flows toward, organization as political parties and military  
forms and all the dream states in between, and of course both forms and sides of  
the contest - of combat, have leaders. 
 
Some leaders inspire, others administer; some organize at the front in the  
political arena and still other leaders are active in the enemies rear. 
 
The enemies rear. The feces of colonialism and imperial conquest. 
 
Martin Luther King Jr. was thrust onto the national political stage, found  
his individual oral compass, made his personal pact with the death dream, and  
after the social movement achieved the infrastructure basis for Lincoln's 
vision  - "The Second Constitution," the movement was decapitated, and channeled 
into  the canals of bourgeois legality. 
 
No. The revolutionary struggle for re-form-u-late, does not reject  
completing the vision of ones previous revolution. Our vision and my fight -  "I," is 
the platform for the revolution still in birth. 
 
What stands before the American people - (and sides are being taken as the  
propaganda battle intensifies) is the Third American Revolution, whose vision 
is  being crafted in the furnace of heated ideological struggle. This battle at 
this  stage needs its leaders for the masses who cannot - not, be in 
continuous  motion. 
 
The masses are nothing without their ceaseless production of leaders, and  
these leaders are drawn from all classes and segments of the population. 
 
Dr. King's role as historical marker and important leader during the period  
of competition of the Second Revolutionary War is obvious.  That is why  
thousands upon thousands demonstrated August 1983, in Washington DC, to make him  a 
national holiday. Ironically, several of the most reactionary states and the  
historical seats of the Slave Power would fight for the next two decades 
against  this federal legislation. 
 
Was it not the reactionary Ronald Reagan that signed the King Holiday into  
federal law, against his own personal judgement? 
 
President Reagan hated King. 
 
Did you see it? 
 
Martin Luther . . . just became King in a country that has no history of  
political feudalism - the illustrious fief, and when one is crowned "King" it is  
the power of 1 + 0 or the leader symbol because zero, nothing is of course  
everyone. 
 
Why did Reagan hate King? 
 
Watts 1965 . . . California, in whose aftermath Reagan entered national  
politics, with the words of King ringing loud in his ears . . . . "I cannot tell  
the Negro not to rebel." 
 
President Reagan had to complete the reformulation to inaugurate the next  
phase of counter attacks against the consolidation of the Third American  
Revolution. 
 
When the flesh becomes the dream the past becomes clear because the future  
is disclosed to anyone with the power of obviousness. 
 
Look at it and suspend judgement based on the old dream. 
 
The critical can only be understanding why the oppressed cannot on the  basis 
of vision exceed the deferred dream. The platform of the new dream has to  be 
erected and then the new vision unfolds. 
 
There is sex - lots of it, in the new dream and the vision. "Lots of it" is  
the enlargement of fulfillment. 
 
Comrade Waistline 
 
 
 
 



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