We’ve all heard the, ‘I Have a Dream’ speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, but have you ever listened to his speech titled, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence? He delivered this speech at Riverside Church in NY on April 4, 1967, one year to the day he was murdered. 🧐

Here’s a quote from that speech: “As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems… But they asked, and rightly so, ‘what about Vietnam?’ They asked if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.”

Fast forward 20 years and four U.S. Presidents later…same issues, but this time the issues were highlighted by a group of young boys from the hood. The Word by The Junkyard Band calls out President Reagan for funding weapons for war, but not to underprivileged Americans.

Join me as I share my new social action campaign in honor of Dr. King and The Junkyard Band. I e dedicated my life to researching these issues and fighting for change in this country. I’m inviting you to be a part of that change.