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Christian Reverend King and Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh were the best of friends.
MLK: "Beyond Vietnam" speech, April 4, 1967
(Vision Chasers) One year before his death assassination, Dr. King gave a speech criticizing U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Great consequences would follow. His criticism made him very unpopular towards the end of his life.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: The Unfiltered Radical
Boy, ya gotta get radical. - Whoya callin boy?
(UnionSolidarity) Does it matter that the good reverend and Christian pastor cheated on his wife? That's a cardinal sin of infidelity that rarely gets talked about due to his greatness as a visionary and preacher, a public speaker, the best of orators. While not as radical as Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. King was a great friend of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, whom he nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Together they realized the overarching importance of imperialism in the United States' racism. The crimes the country was committing were not only against many of its own citizens but brown, black, and yellow people everywhere -- particularly Buddhist Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, which it was secretly and illegally bombing to promote our US military-industrial complex. Sadly, when Dr. King dared to condemn the American War on Vietnam, many "liberals" turned against him, Black and white. He is held up now, but he was condemned and dismissed then.
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