![]() ![]() So that one day our freedom won't just be ours. ![]() It is to reimagine institutions of power. And it's how I've come to understand that our goal is not just to remove bad actors from power. It was strategic, it was pragmatic, it was how we won. King love was not just a moral imperative. Implementing the demands of justice and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Love without power is sentimental and anemic. He says, power without love is reckless and abusive. We talk about love as a Russia feeling as thoughts and prayers that require no serious action, but it was going back to Dr. It's the way that we have come to talk about it. Um, and it, and I realize it's because it's, it's not, the problem was not with love. And I've, and even I, I have to admit, you know, even after I became a lawyer, sort of that legal training made it so that every, anytime I saw someone's done on the stage and say love was the answer, I cringed. Speaker 1: 03:00 are hungry for war rather than the language of love. Is it hard to introduce the topic now and still sound relevant? Speaker 1: 02:46 You know, there's not that many people in politics or even in the social justice movement talking about love these days. I became part of a generation, a new generation struggling for civil rights and human rights. And so he really turned me into an activist hearing his voice come down to us through the ages. Our real enemies are systems of oppression, poverty, militarism, racism. King was saying that our enemies are not individuals. And it was sitting in the pews and looking at the Sloan black man who took the mic, it was an actor who was performing his speeches from the Vietnam war. And I remember shortly after those attacks, I went and saw a presentation, um, of dr King's speeches. So D was the first person killed in a hate crime after nine 11. I became an activist shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, my, um, a man who I considered an uncle Balbir Singh. ![]() Did that experience start you on the path to your civil rights and social justice work? Speaker 1: 01:39 Now you're from California, central Valley where your family has lived for generations, but still you experienced hostility because of your family's sake. And when we practice that kind of labor for others who do not look like us for our opponents and for ourselves, then love becomes revolutionary, becomes an ethic that can sustain social change. Grief is the price of love, angers the force that protects that which is loved. Um, it is, uh, it is a kind of labor that engages all of our emotions. Speaker 2: 01:07 Uh, first of all, I F I define love as sweet labor, not just a rush of feeling, right? Love is labor, fierce, bloody, imperfect, life-giving. Speaker 1: 01:04 How do you define revolutionary love? King and his legacy is to reclaim love as a force for justice for a new time. And so I brought the message that I believe that the best way to honor Dr. They knew that he had built an entire nonviolent movement for civil rights anchored in the ethic of love. Well, this morning it was so beautiful to see a thousand people gathering in honor of Dr. Is that the message that you brought today to the all people's breakfast? Speaker 1: 00:31 Now, the subject of that Ted talk that I just mentioned was about revolutionary love. Speaker 2: 00:29 Thank you so much for having me, Marie. She's a civil rights lawyer, a filmmaker and author, and the creator of a Ted talk that went viral and it has been viewed almost 3 million times. The keynote speaker at this year's event has certainly been heard. The theme this year to honor dr King's life and legacy is be heard, be counted, belong. All people's breakfast was held in Balboa park this morning. ![]()
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