The civil rights veteran,one of only two surviving witnesses to King’s murder 50 years ago, says his mentors response to Trump would have been: ‘We must not surrender our spirits’Jesse Jackson still remembers the sound of the gunshot and the sight of blood. They have been with him for half a century. “Every time I contemplate about it, and its like pulling a scab off a sore, he says. It’s a hurtful, painful thought: that a man of appreciate is killed by disapprove; that a man of peace should be killed by violence; a man who cared is killed by the careless.
Jackson and fellow civil rights veteran Andrew Young are the last surviving disciples of Martin Luther King who witnessed his assassination on 4 April 1968. Others who were at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, or Tennessee,that day have been claimed by the passing decades. And each milestone anniversary has offered a snapshot of Jackson’s, and the nation’s, and jagged and jarringly uneven narratives.
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Source: guardian.co.uk