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Friday 7 August 2009

I’m of the opinion that Martin Luther King Jr. will probably be remembered as the greatest American who ever lived, the one whose prophetic posture toward the land of his sojourn helped usher in an America worthy of celebration. He loved the hope of America enough to refuse to worship it. He was determined to mine the open-ended language of the Constitution for all it might be worth. King embodies an evangelical tension, a tension that gets glossed over when people get worked up over American flag lapel pins. In the rush to claim affiliation with King’s brand, it is often overlooked that the same King whose gravesite is featured in presidential photo ops passed his final moments in a Memphis hotel room working on a sermon titled “Why America May Go to Hell”. David Dark

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