The Racial Equity Advocacy Committee submits this letter as a loving and justice-oriented response to our colleagues in ministry who call upon REAC to respond to A Message from the Stated Clerk dated January 22 by the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), following the Stated Clerk’s letter on the occasion of the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
MLK Day is a national day of service intended to share the wealth of the earth with all to eliminate hunger, poverty, violence and homelessness.
몬트리트 컨퍼런스 센터는 50여 년 전에 몬트리트에서 열린 크리스천 액션 컨퍼런스 (Christian Action Conference)에서 연설한 마틴 루터 킹 주니어 (Martin Luther King Jr.) 목사를 기념하는 3 일간의 컨퍼런스(2015년 8월)의 주제로 킹 박사의 미완성 의제 (Unfinished Agenda)를 개최했습니다. 이 회의는 “인종차별주의, 빈곤, 전쟁, 그리고 유물론”에 반대하는 킹목사의 유산과 이 분야에서 여전히 수행해야 할 과제를 검토한 것입니다.
그가 사망한 시점에서 킹 박사는 가난한 백성 캠페인 (Poor People 's Campaign)에 종사했습니다. "시민 인권(civil rights)에서 인류 인권(human rights)시대로의 전환"을 알린 킹 박사는 모든 인종과 민족의 가난한 사람들로 구성된 워싱톤에서의 캠페인과 새로운 행진을 조직하기 시작했습니다. 랄프 애버나티(Ralph Abernathy) 목사의 말에 따르면 행진은 "모든 인종의 가난한 사람들의 곤경을 극적으로 표현하고 더 나은 삶을 기다림에 지쳐있음을 분명히 알리기"위해 고안되었습니다. 테네시 멤피스에 있는 청소부 노동자들의 공평한 임금을 주장한 킹 박사의 동맹은 그가 암살당하기 전 노동자들을 지원하기 위해 Memphis를 두 차례 여행 중이었습니다
In August of 2015, Montreat Conference Center hosted Dr. King’s Unfinished Agenda, a three-day conference commemorating the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s address to the Christian Action Conference at Montreat fifty years earlier. The conference examined King’s legacy of standing against “racism, poverty, war, and materialism” and the work still left to be done in these areas.
At the time of his death, Dr. King was engaged in what was known as the Poor People’s Campaign. Having discerned a shift from “the era of civil rights to the era of human rights,” Dr. King had begun organizing toward a campaign and a new march on Washington consisting of poor people from across the country of all races and ethnicities. The march, according to the Reverend Dr. Ralph Abernathy, was designed to “dramatize the plight of America’s poor of all races and make very clear that they are sick and tired of waiting for a better life.” Integral to the campaign was Dr. King’s alliance with sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, who were demonstrating for equal pay. It was during one of two trips to Memphis in support of those workers that Dr. King was assassinated.