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The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First Part

Five score minus eight years ago January eighteenth two thousand twenty one father of civil rights movement the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored as benevolent demigod figure to the oppressed African American population without whose bold risks and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth ninety sixty eight at the hands of a crazed gunman (James Earl Ray), whereby all the King's men and all the King's horses..., still aghast at tragic event while reverberations felt forty two years later, where embedded white privilege begets continued racial strife analogous to uncorked raging tempest saddling people of color to human bondage (no matter ponying up excellent equestrians), nevertheless wrought empowerment advancing cherished dreams of slaves recent descendents allowing, enabling and providing once attainable aspirations only bestowed upon the self anointed masters and early settlers of the virginal North American contiguous land mass yet…generations prior to this prestigious public personality Abolitionists pitted themselves against the institution of slavery incrementally raising awareness regarding the abomination forced servitude incurred on those shackled thus setting the stage for this grandson of A.D. Williams a rural parsonage, who ministered spiritual support for the small congregation (initially only thirteen members) comprising attendants at Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta Georgia setting precedent for freedom (at risk of life and limb) against scourge of racial prejudice courtesy of sharecropper grandparents whose objection to racial segregation based on an affront to the will of God, whereby the young whip smart precocious lad, (whose impact we now memorialize) showed his true colorful promise when a young student at Liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania where the yet uncrowned eminent king came under the influence of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, a classmate of his father's at Morehouse College who became a mentor by exposing his protégée to liberal views of theology

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