{"id":17231,"date":"2020-05-31T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2020-06-01T01:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:18:53","slug":"by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/05\/31\/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hanif Abdurraqib: Beyond the misattributed quotes and bad memes and poor logic made in his name, the real tragedy of King\u2019s legacy is that the white people who so frequently invoke it in the name of peace do so with a fundamental perversion of his message. Nonviolence \u2014 as it is discussed and fetishized in proximity to the poor and\/or marginalized \u2014 is so often only dragged out in response to any uprising of those people. <br \/><br \/>The riot is a language, yes, but the response to a riot is also its own language; a language of doublespeak. The call is for peace and love, but the true demand is for complete silence altogether. An NFL player takes a knee without speaking, and is threatened and hated, called a violent thug and a racist. For those of certain skin colors, no protest can be peaceful enough. More <a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.com\/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence-4de177a8c87b\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanif Abdurraqib: Beyond the misattributed quotes and bad memes and poor logic made in his name, the real tragedy of King\u2019s legacy is that the white people who so frequently invoke it in the name of peace do so with a fundamental perversion of his message. Nonviolence \u2014 as it is discussed and fetishized in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/05\/31\/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}