In the wake of all the social injustices happening around the country the past several months, rapper and social activist Killer Mike has had a lot to say. After the Darren Wilson indictment verdict, the Run The Jewels rapper broke down into tears during a concert in St. Louis last November, sharing his thoughts on the decision on stage. He was on CNN last month to discuss the decision not to indict Officer Wilson, the implication of the decision, and how it would affect the Black community.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Killer Mike has written an op-ed piece on the revolutionary. The essay reflects on Dr. King's fight for equality, and calls upon us all to continue to fight for social freedom.

Be more than an American that simply enjoys the fruits of his labor by taking a day off. Be a keeper of his challenge to government. Be a source of agitation to policy-makers. Be an ally to those young people in the streets, fighting against corrupt police departments. Be a friend to the poor and to prisoners. Be more like Martin, Malcolm, Che, Hampton, Assata. Be willing to fight–with your life if need be–for the freedom, justice and liberation of all against tyranny and the war machine that these countries and corporations force upon us and call ‘normal’. We don’t need more depictions of Martin as anything other than what he was–and what we have to become to ever realize his dream of the eradication poverty, miseducation, inequality and war. We have to be revolutionaries and nothing less.

Read the entire essay here.

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