The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

  THESE PEOPLE INVITED MIKE HUCKABEE TO “RE-ASSASSINATE” DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON HIS HOLIDAY ©Wendell Griffen, 2022   The Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, an agency within the Arkansas Department of Education, invited Mike Huckabee to deliver a “keynote address” during an invitation only “interfaith prayer breakfast” that will be hosted at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion by Governor Asa Hutchinson at an undisclosed time on Monday, January 17, 2022, the federal holiday established to honor King’s life and ministry. I have called the Huckabee invitation another example of how people, including political and religious figures, are “re-assassinating” Martin Luther King Jr.   Mike Huckabee served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He came in second (behind former Senator John McCain) in the 2008 campaign for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States and was unable to win the nomination in 2016. He is host of the Huckabee talk show

  THE RE-ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ©Wendell Griffen, 2022   This year, the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Education, has invited an un-reconstructed Southern Baptist preacher, right wing politician, and Fox News pundit named Mike Huckabee to deliver a "keynote address" during what it terms an "inter-faith prayer breakfast" on the King holiday (January 17). Attendance will be by invitation only. The event will be held at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion ( https://arkingdream.org/events) .  A year to the day before he was assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist pastor, publicly defined the war in Vietnam as a civil rights issue on April 4, 1967, in an address titled Beyond Vietnam:   A Time to Break Silence to a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City.   In doing so, King uttered the following prescient statement.   The war in Vietnam