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Martin King Devastating State Governments Too

Part 2 — The Empire Strikes Back Again and Again

Bren Kelly
6 min readFeb 5, 2025
Oh, they never stopped their civil rights movement against yours

Well, I hope you can feel a bit of the White Conservative animus bubbling up in Part 1. You can see now that I think King Junior was nuts.

He wasn’t alone, for sure. He started young, and people in their 20s do crazy things, taking massive risks, they don’t truly comprehend. Of course, by the late ’60s, he did realize he was in deep, and an assassination was more than likely.

I had been talking about the many historically violent insurrections. I’m so sorry white people have written history and minimized what happened, blocking these “political” investigations from getting into history textbooks, literally. But it was insurrection because the 1871 Senate report called it that. Those sneaky whites keep tamping down and renaming critical white conservatives’ resistance to throw you off their vicious trail and continued actions against democracy, equality, and justice for all. I seriously hope you stop using their language. That’s why I turn to these original reports.

All the Black and white Republican victims listed in the 1871 reports were terrorized by “conservative democrats,” as the report called them. The language is confusing because they called the pro-abolitionist, pro-black northern wing of the…

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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