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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought against white racism. When he made his famous speech in 1963, he said that he wanted his kids to live in a world without white racism. Almost every word Dr. King spoke was in opposition to that same racism. Some Americans need to learn that he was asking whites to stop being racists and that whites start looking at blacks not for the color of their skin but that WHITES begin looking at us for the content of our character. He was not asking blacks to ignore white racism while lying to themselves about being colorblind. His dream was about the end of white racism.
Dr. King has been dead for over fifty years now, and just like in almost every other matter of race relations, a specific part of the white community has amnesia about King. The racist subculture has deconstructed King’s life to make him a black right-wing accommodationist. When discussing race, there is always somebody who tries telling a black person how what they say would not be approved by King because that person opposes white racism in no uncertain terms or without regard to the feelings of those continuing to practice racism.
I was alive when King lived and saw how whites hated him. According to right-wing whites, Dr. King was widely loved and accepted in their community. In reality, he was called everything members of the racist subculture call blacks who oppose the continuing white racism of today. I know because I heard them saying it. King was loved so much for his dignity, non-violence, and responsibility that some whites claim to champion that a white man ended his life using ultimate violence. Now some whites try telling us what King stood for. Really?
When Dr. King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, from which every right-wing republican has memorized one sentence, he was hated by fifty percent of white America, and at the time of his murder, seventy-five percent of all Americans hated his guts. Some went so far as to say he bought his death on himself.
James C. Cobb, Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM, APRIL 4, 2018, Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed
Now the same people or their descendants want to lecture blacks about what King stood for, and it’s defined by this: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Everyone black knew Martin Luther King Jr.’s “stay woke” speech. Todays white racist knows nothing about it.
kinginstitute.stanford.edu
Dr. King has been dead for over fifty years now, and just like in almost every other matter of race relations, a specific part of the white community has amnesia about King. The racist subculture has deconstructed King’s life to make him a black right-wing accommodationist. When discussing race, there is always somebody who tries telling a black person how what they say would not be approved by King because that person opposes white racism in no uncertain terms or without regard to the feelings of those continuing to practice racism.
I was alive when King lived and saw how whites hated him. According to right-wing whites, Dr. King was widely loved and accepted in their community. In reality, he was called everything members of the racist subculture call blacks who oppose the continuing white racism of today. I know because I heard them saying it. King was loved so much for his dignity, non-violence, and responsibility that some whites claim to champion that a white man ended his life using ultimate violence. Now some whites try telling us what King stood for. Really?
When Dr. King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, from which every right-wing republican has memorized one sentence, he was hated by fifty percent of white America, and at the time of his murder, seventy-five percent of all Americans hated his guts. Some went so far as to say he bought his death on himself.
James C. Cobb, Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM, APRIL 4, 2018, Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed
Now the same people or their descendants want to lecture blacks about what King stood for, and it’s defined by this: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Everyone Claims to Know 'What MLK Would Have Wanted.' He Actually Told Black People.
What if I told you that Martin Luther King Jr. talked about diversity, critical race theory and staying "woke" more than anything else?
"Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution," Address at Morehouse College Commencement
