Portrait of a Dangerous Man
The Reverend Martin Luther King preaches against the Vietnam War. He protests that twice as many blacks as whites are dying there, cannon fodder for an imperial adventure comparable to the Nazi crimes. The poisoning of water and land, the destruction of people and harvests are part of a plan of extermination. Of the million Vietnamese dead, says the preacher, the majority are children. The United States, he claims, is suffering from an infection of the soul; and any autopsy would show that the name of that infection is Vietnam.
Six years ago the FBI put this man in Section A of the Reserved List, among those dangerous individuals who must be watched and jailed in case of emergency. Since then the police hound him, spying on him day and night, threatening and provoking him.
Martin Luther King collapses on the balcony of a Memphis hotel. A bullet full in the face puts an end to this nuisance.
-----Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, Vol. 3, Century of the Wind
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It looks like the whole world is suffering from that infection! The inoculations since world war 2 have worked well!
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