116: BHM - Powerful Words w/Martin Luther King III Celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Jr

While Black

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this, our last installment of the powerful words series, we close out with a King delivering the words of a King. Martin Luther King III reads and performs for all of us the powerful words from his father last sermon from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church. The sermon is called the Drum Major Instinct and from its call for police to stand with black citizens to its discussion of how many of us fight to keep up with the "Jones's" it is hyper relevant. During this session, there were moments that i had tears in my eyes. None more so than when Martin himself get a little chocked up as he read through his fathers words about his own funeral which we now know would end up being only a couple of months later. In this session, I realized that to us Dr Martin Luther King Jr was this larger than life figure that we respect and hold high because of what he did - but to MLKIII he was simply Dad. You get a chance to feel the real emotion in Martin when you realize that much like i miss my own father he misses his own. This is a very special episode of While Black Presents "Powerful Words" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a
0:06.8	drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, say that I was a drum major for peace,
0:14.2	I was a drum major for righteousness, and all the other shallow things will not matter.
0:19.7	I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to
0:26.3	leave behind, but I just want to leave a committed life. And that's all I want to say.
0:33.5	If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can share somebody with the word or a song,
0:40.0	if I can show somebody, he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
0:45.7	If I can do my duty as a Christian art, if I can bring salvation to a world once wrong,
0:52.1	if I can spread the message as the master tongue, then my living will not be in vain.
1:07.9	Well, welcome to Wild Black, a seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and raw on
1:15.8	anything happening while black. If black cultures there, we're there. If you're pissed or empowered,
1:23.6	then let's talk about it. Write with us on this all black everything.
1:32.4	What's going on while black family? This is Vince Glad to be back here with you. Listen,
1:36.7	I know that Black History Month is officially over. They try to limit us to 28 days,
1:41.1	but that's not how we roll here on wild black. This is still Black History Month for us.
1:46.1	And we're going to cap it with a conversation about powerful words from one king to another.
1:52.4	That means this week we're talking to Martin Luther King III again. And he's bringing you
1:58.4	amazingly powerful words from his father. He's delivering today the drum major instinct.
2:05.6	That's the very last sermon that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ever gave from the pulpit of Ebenezer
2:12.8	as he was killed just a few months later. So I want you to listen up and listen closely
2:19.0	as Martin even emotional at times brings you this powerful sermon. Pay attention. It's relevant today.
2:26.8	It could be preached this past Sunday next Sunday. It's that relevant and he does an amazing job
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