“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. “
-excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
Afterwords like that, I hope that we heed the call of a great man like Dr. King, and with that, here’s what you missed in the news yesterday.
GoFundMe Is On Fyre
Whether you’ve seen the recent documentaries or attended the festival yourself, the media has been stirring due to a reawakening of upset from the failed Fyre Festival that took place back in 2017. For those of you unfamiliar with Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, an entrepreneur responsible for throwing crazy, luxurious parties back in the day, wanted to throw a music festival on a private island in the Bahamas. What ended up taking place was a complete and total disaster. For brevity’s sake, there were hardly enough foodstuffs, shoddy living conditions and, people were largely lied to by the festival organizers.
In an act of swift justice, a fundraising campaign was organized to pay back one of the restaurant owners on the island who lost everything, Maryann Rolle.
“I had 10 persons working for me just preparing food all day and all night, 24 hours. I literally had to pay all those people… I went through about $50,000 of my savings that I could’ve had for a rainy day. They just wiped it out and never looked back.”
–Maryann Rolle
A Little Louder For Everyone In The Back!
Much to no one’s surprise, California Senator Kamala Harris announced today that she will be running in the 2020 presidential race. According to almost every media outlet, Harris will be running under the theme of “For the people” for her campaign and is expected to formally announce her candidacy later this month. When she was elected to the Senate in 2016, she became the first Indian-American to do so, while simultaneously becoming the second black woman in the process.
“My parents were very active in the civil rights movement, and that’s the language that I grew up hearing. It was about a belief that we are a country that was founded on noble ideals and we are the best of who we are when we fight to achieve those ideals. The thing about Dr. King that always inspires me is he was aspirational. He was aspirational like our country is aspirational. We know that we have not yet reached those ideals, but our strength is that we fight to reach those ideals.”
–Sen. Kamala Harris
