And here we are.
I was completing my junior year at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. At that time, Greensboro was one of the main targets of the civil rights cause, and the site of much unrest. I was among those who marched and demonstrated. The antiwar movement was at high ebb at that time as well, because the Vietnam War was massively failing, and dozens of thousands of young male boomers were being drafted to die in it. Me included.
I remember saying, when we heard MLK was gone, that this would end the civil rights movement and delay its fulfillment for fifty years. I was right about the former (see that last link) and wrong about the latter. Fifty-eight years have passed, and the long road istill stretches ahead of us.
Back then I also had hope that nonviolence would at least persist as a value and a strategy for fighting war and injustice. I was wrong about that, too. Nonviolence didn’t die with Doctor King, but it lost its exemplar. None of his stature and weight have shown up since.
Which will be good for MyTerms
Mike O’Neill does a great job unpacking California”s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), and how it might be good for Europe, I’m also thinking about how it will also help thresh the wheat of websites and services not participating in the adtech fecosystem from the chaff of ones that do.
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A porkwarming pig slaughter and community feast story from the BBC.
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