{"id":151092,"date":"2023-01-20T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=151092"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:49:07","slug":"video-bates-celebratesmartin-luther-king-jr-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/20\/video-bates-celebratesmartin-luther-king-jr-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;Whatever wilderness you wander, you are all creatives&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Know that you are, by nature, a creator, a maker of something other than what <em>is<\/em>. In whatever wilderness you wander, you are all creatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keith Hamilton Cobbs, an actor, playwright, and Bates&#8217; keynote speaker for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2023, began the day in the Peter J. Gomes Chapel with an inspiring message about how arts and activism play complementing roles in our lives, no matter who we are, or what we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch some of the best moments of the day below: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"4oDwjWwRmIM\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Bates College 2023 MLK Day Moments\" title=\"Bates College 2023 MLK Day Moments\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Throughout the day, workshops, panels, discussions, and creative presentations followed this year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Art and Activism,&#8221; as the Bates community shared how they practice creativity and community in their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-900x600.webp\" alt=\"Is it OK to target iconic works of art in the name of social justice? That\u2019s what students from Bates and @morehouse1867 debated at the annual Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, Class of 1920, Debate as part of the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day programming. Seen above, Chijindum Dike (left) shares a post-debate celebration with John Curry. Both are students from Morehouse College, and traveled to Bates for the debate. The Bates community and friends crowded into the Olin Arts Center for a much-anticipated part of Bates\u2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day programming: the debate between four students; two from Morehouse, and two from Bates. The tradition honors Mays, who served as the president of Morehouse College for 27 years. King, then a student at Morehouse, referred to Mays as his \u201cspiritual mentor.\u201d Throughout the debate, the students responded to this year\u2019s motion, \u201cThis house believes that the targeting of iconic works of art to advance social justice is justified,\u201d and responded to each other and opinions from the audience. Manuel Machorro \u201925 of Mexico City, a politics and philosophy double major, opened the debate on the government side with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. \u201cDr. King said \u2018if you can\u2019t fly, then run, if you can\u2019t run, then walk, if you can\u2019t walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving.\u2019 The claim that we\u2019re gonna make from the government, is that when you\u2019re not listened [to] by anyone, and when the government monopolizes power to destroy you, any way that you see fit is to some capacity justified in pursuing social justice.\u201d Machorro was joined by Dike, a sophomore and double major in psychology and Chinese. The opposition was presented by Curry, a senior and triple major in philosophy, religion, and Chinese, and Andrew Montieth \u201924 of Monroe, Wash., a philosophy major. The debaters referenced recent demonstrations, arguing that social justice is furthered by reclaiming spaces and public attention, and the opposition argued that some social activist action diverts attention away from the problem, and onto the targeted object.\" class=\"wp-image-151167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-900x600.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-200x133.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067-942x628.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Benjamin_Mays_Debate_1067.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bates debater Manuel Machorro \u201925 (left) of Mexico City and visiting Morehouse College debater Chijindum Dike teamed up for the annual Benjamin Elijah Mays Debate on MLK Day at Bates. They debated Bates&#8217; Andrew Montieth \u201924 of Monroe, Wash., and John Curry of Morehouse. 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