{"id":2453,"date":"2012-01-16T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/mlks-mentor-revealed.html"},"modified":"2012-01-16T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:59:00","slug":"mlks-mentor-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/mlks-mentor-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"MLK\u2019s Mentor Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"background-color: white;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #616466;font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 18px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">He criticized Christianity for its racial segregation, the New Deal for being half-hearted, and America for mimicking, in its Jim Crow laws, the fascistic tendencies of Europe\u2019s real fascists. Having already labeled Jesus\u2019 virgin birth a myth, albeit a religiously instructive one, he was no stranger to hot-button commentary.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #616466;font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 18px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Howard Thurman (Hon.\u201967) (pictured below) expressed these thoughts privately, and sometimes publicly, in the years before he became BU\u2019s pioneering\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2011\/who-was-howard-thurman\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #5ca8d8;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">African American chapel dean<\/a>\u00a0and mentored a young Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS\u201955, Hon.\u201959).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc.edu\/uscpress\/books\/2011\/7043.html\" style=\"background-color: transparent;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #5ca8d8;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><em style=\"background-color: transparent;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman, Volume 2: Christian, Who Calls Me Christian?<\/em><\/a>(University of South Carolina Press), out this month, features a fraction of his surviving 58,000 papers. The book spans the years from 1936, just after Thurman\u2019s life-altering meeting with Gandhi, to 1943, just before his cofounding the country\u2019s first integrated, interfaith church in San Francisco.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px;color: #616466;font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;font-size: 15px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 18px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2012\/martin-luther-kings-mentor-revealed\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He criticized Christianity for its racial segregation, the New Deal for being half-hearted, and America for mimicking, in its Jim Crow laws, the fascistic tendencies of Europe\u2019s real fascists. 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