When I hear weak and tepid calls for unity, I’m reminded of these words by Martin Luther King Jr. and also this letter which was a resounding critique of white moderates.

“So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be?” 1/5

Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. 2/5
We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime- the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality,and thus fell below their environment. 3/5
The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.

The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Letters from a Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963). 4/5
There can be no unity with white supremacists, nazis, and others who raided the Capitol

But citizens of good faith across diverse political/religious affiliations can find courage to seek a more beautiful way-become extremists for love.Truth tellers. Healers. Justice makers 5/5
Someone just DM’d to ask me if I believe fundamentally that GOP supporters are racist.

I’m suggesting no such thing. For years, I’ve heard GOP friends and family claim both Abraham Lincoln and MLK jr to their party with great pride. And they should.
In a moment of national crisis, we will know who belongs to the “party of Lincoln”/ “party of MLK jr” and who is guided by these enduring truths, have been formed by it and aspire to bear its fruit in the public square by those appealing to it/living by it out loud w/ intention
That’s meant to be an invitation to remember Lincoln’s words

“that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom[8]—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.[6][9]”
The single greatest fear/ threat to an ideology of White Supremacy are as it turns out the is beautiful promise and expansive reach of democracy which lifts and liberates, and while not perfect has as its noble aim “government of the people, by the people, for the people...”
If someone receives these words as an offense as a rebuke or as a stinging indictment or really anything other than a call to love inclusive broad diverse coalition upon which a true unity can be built—well, that’s that individuals to wrestle with and to ask the question “why?”
My suggestion is that their issue is not with me, or my choice to quote and appeal to the greatest moral and spiritual leaders of any particular political persuasion and to quote them in their appropriate context...

their issue is with the broader premise of democracy itself.

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I am going to take the context for this thread from this piece by my good brother @mabziz in 2018-3 years ago. One thing I am so perturbed about is the response of our Attorney General's office to issues of state security. I have no personal grouse against @MalamiSan, but


2. I do have a professional grouse against him. I feel he is not alive to his duties. I feel that he is also not empowering his Director of Public Prosecutions or his Solicitor General. There is clearly a lot that befuddles me and this is because I am a seasoned lawyer and can't/

3. understand why law is not being used as the instrument it was designed for-to enforce law and order. Let us take the case of Nnamdi Kanu-this man was arraigned in Nigeria on a charge of treason/treasonable felony-he was on bail & he jumped bail. Why has he not been extradited?

4. Is it that Kanu is somehow bigger than Nigeria? What has happened to his surety who failed to produce him? Who is prosecuting him? Our Federal Ministry of Justice? Should Malami not explain to Nigeria why Nnamdi Kanu is still taunting Nigeria daily & still actively destroying/

5. our unity everyday. He is putting the lives of many people at risk and stoking ethnic dissent easily. The Fulani herdsmen dilemma, the burning of Lagos State and his coordination of same on phone-in radio channels, his videos are all stoking a Yoruba/Igbo carnage. Same with/

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