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jnepal's review
4.0
This biography of MLK Jr. focuses mainly on his humanity, private life, and his relationship with black culture.
4 of the chapters are about MLK’s relationship with food, music, play, and humor.
I appreciated the chapters on food and music the most.
The food, because I’ve experienced similar cultural experiences with my friends from Nepal, so very food-family oriented. It’s compelling to observe how powerfully food can unite people.
Music is similar to food, in its ability to unite. Really appreciate the author’s observations on MLK’s and the black community’s use of Negro spirituals and gospel music. Negro spirituals at once reveal the experiences of deep suffering with great hope. I really think that white evangelicalism, by and large, totally misses out on that dynamic of pain and hope.
Without a doubt some/many of the greatest saints in heaven have been counted among slaves as the least on earth, most uneducated, most oppressed, but now most glorified in Jesus.
Biographies should make their subjects come alive, this one made me feel like I was eating and singing with MLK.
Really good.
4 of the chapters are about MLK’s relationship with food, music, play, and humor.
I appreciated the chapters on food and music the most.
The food, because I’ve experienced similar cultural experiences with my friends from Nepal, so very food-family oriented. It’s compelling to observe how powerfully food can unite people.
Music is similar to food, in its ability to unite. Really appreciate the author’s observations on MLK’s and the black community’s use of Negro spirituals and gospel music. Negro spirituals at once reveal the experiences of deep suffering with great hope. I really think that white evangelicalism, by and large, totally misses out on that dynamic of pain and hope.
Without a doubt some/many of the greatest saints in heaven have been counted among slaves as the least on earth, most uneducated, most oppressed, but now most glorified in Jesus.
Biographies should make their subjects come alive, this one made me feel like I was eating and singing with MLK.
Really good.
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