Dr. King’s “Dream” speech commemorated in Washington as “racially motivated” shooter kills three in Florida
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🗓️ 28 August 2023
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Sixty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famed “I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington. Last Saturday, thousands of Americans gathered in our nation’s capital to commemorate the event.
The same day, a white gunman killed three Black people in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, before shooting himself. The Jacksonville sheriff told a press conference, “This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people.”
In the context of Dr. King’s speech, prejudice—an innate sense of superiority over another person or race—is an endemic result of the Fall and our “will to power” (Genesis 3:5).
We can and should legislate against it. We can and should take every practical means to minimize its existence and horrific effects. But we cannot eradicate it without the help of the God who made us. As a result, we need the Holy Spirit to do three things we cannot do for ourselves.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:27.0 | Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Monday, August the 28th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:43.4 | Sixty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famed, I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington. |
| 0:53.5 | Last Saturday, thousands of Americans |
| 0:55.6 | gathered in our nation's capital to commemorate the event. The same day, a white gunman killed |
| 1:01.0 | three black people in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, before shooting himself. |
| 1:06.4 | The Jacksonville Sheriff told a press conference, quote, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people, end quote. |
| 1:14.6 | In other news, a Florida elementary school principal and teacher were placed on leave after black students were singled out at an assembly. |
| 1:22.7 | The interim superintendent stated, this should not have happened, and also offered an apology to the students |
| 1:29.4 | and their families. |
| 1:31.0 | The number of hate groups in the U.S. has escalated from 457 in 1999 to an all-time |
| 1:38.6 | high of 1,225. |
| 1:41.8 | There are nearly as many race-based hate crimes against blacks as against all other ethnicities combined. |
| 1:48.2 | Dr. Micah Edmondson is lead pastor of Koinania Church in Nashville and author of a PhD dissertation on Dr. King. |
| 1:56.6 | Reclaiming MLK Jr.'s dream 60 years later is his brilliant new article for Christianity |
| 2:03.0 | today. In it, he calls Christians to more substantially engage with King's dream by |
| 2:09.0 | recognizing the painful history behind the speech, examining the practical issues addressed in it, |
| 2:15.0 | and embracing the practical theology on which it was built. |
| 2:19.3 | According to Dr. Edmondson, one of the most fundamental aspects of King's theology was what he often called |
| 2:25.3 | somebodyness. This was a biblically rooted belief in the fundamental value and dignity of every human life. |
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