Does Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s message of non-violent resistance resonate with this generation? His daughter, Bernice King, 51, hopes so.
On Tuesday, August 26, she visited Riverview Gardens High School in St. Louis to discourage youth from reacting angrily in the wake of the shooting death of unarmed African-American teen Michael Brown.
“I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger,” she told the students, according to St. Louis Post Dispatch online. “It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad and it just wants to destroy. At the end of the day, you have to find a way to arrest that anger.”
The killing of the 18-year-old by white Officer Darren Wilson sparked violent protests, looting and produced several nights of unrest in Ferguson.
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source: EEWMagazine.com
