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Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of a left podcast in which we shall learn

about some of the lesser known sides of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy, not

just about his radicalism and his focus on labor rights, but also some new takes, I think,

on the long shadow of the patriarchal views that he held and reinforced.

Our clips today come from democracy now, backstory on the media, the dig, the root, and

thinking cap, and then stick around at the end for a continued conversation with our

resident Trump supporter Sam and a breakdown of the old adage that the only thing necessary

for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor.

So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs.

Of those who are not in the so-called big jobs, but let me say to you tonight that whenever

you are engaged in work, that surge humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has

dignity and it has work.

You are reminding not only Memphis, but you are reminding the nation that it is a crime

for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wage.

It is a crime for people to live in this nation and receive starvation wages.

I immediately think about what's happening right now in Kentucky and Oklahoma.

Well-known red states where the teachers have marched out in Oklahoma in many places,

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