Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

Last year on Martin Luther King Day, I reflected upon MLK’s radical critique of U.S. imperialism, an aspect of his legacy which is often forgotten.

This year, I would like us to remember that racism continues to pervade nearly all aspects of life in the United States.

Racism determines health outcomes and life expectancy; racism produces racial segregation for the sake of white supremacy; it fuels a racist judicial system, especially through the war on drugs; it maintains racial inequality in almost every sphere of life, including the political and the economic; and it is behind the United States’ oppression and exploitation of other countries such as Haiti.