The Mountaintop Where Love Refused to Surrender to Hate

by Aberjhani

Title

The Mountaintop Where Love Refused to Surrender to Hate

Artist

Aberjhani

Medium

Digital Art - Silk-featherbrush Artstyle Painting

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“Well, I don't know what will happen now; we've got some difficult days ahead… I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind…”
--Martin Luther King, Jr. From Estate Collection, In Private Hands, NYC-4A & 4B

This Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle painting, titled “The Mountaintop Where Love Refused to Surrender to Hate,” is presented at this time of Kwanzaa 2020 in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings; and, in honor of people of different “races” in different lands who continue to strive for social harmony and equal justice. King’s vision of going “up to the mountain” and seeing “the promised land” is one of his most famous,” spoken just one day before he was slain on April 4, 1968. Rather than attempting a visual representation of what he saw, I chose to attempt one of what that might have felt like.

Dr. King’s timeless wisdom served Americans and diverse populations around the world very well in the year 2020 and likely will do the same in 2021. Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 against the still-increasing shooting deaths of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement officials, and self-appointed vigilantes, could easily have boiled over into worse violence than what we sometimes saw. Instead, both rioters and protesters committed to nonviolent conflict resolution drew motivation from Dr. King’s teachings.

People caught up in sudden bursts of rage recalled his words describing riots as “the language of the unheard.” Others repeated his observation that “"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

More than anything else, as weary as many have become, they still repeat his observation that “Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.”

Aberjhani
https://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info/
Kwanzaa Suite 2020
Black History Month
Black Lives Matter
MLK Day of Service 2021
Harlem Renaissance Centennial 2020-2030

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December 26th, 2020

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