Gaskin: MLK’s lessons on seeing both sides of suffering

Gaskin: MLK’s lessons on seeing both sides of suffering

Black History Month is not only a time to honor past victories, it is also a time to recover moral frameworks that feel endangered in the present. In an era marked by polarization, war, and competing claims of suffering, we are often told that solidarity requires choosing sides — that to stand with one people is to betray another. That is not how Martin Luther King Jr. understood justice. King did not think in terms of competing loyalties. He th…