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Nonviolence and the Nightmare: King and Black Self-Defense daniel J. ott / monmouth college I. Whose Lives Matter? remember the first time that i heard James cone’s voice. A well-established, white scholar had just given what i thought to be a solid presentation on i m artin l uther King Jr.’s notion of the “beloved community.” When he had finished, cone was one of the first to speak in the question and answer period. his strong tenor was piercing: “y ou can’t talk about the dream, if you’re not going to talk about the nightmare.” he went on to clarify his worry that the heart of King’s message was too often lost when white scholars failed to put his thought in the context of the history and reality of the oppression of and violence against blacks in America. i have become afraid that my own thinking and writing about King’s philosophy of nonviolence might be similarly guilty. Another seminal moment for this essay was when William h art responded to a paper that i gave, in which i proposed nonviolence as William James’s moral equivalent to war. hart suggested that i had not really given an argument for why
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Apr 27, 2018
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