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This thread is dedicated to all whites here at USMB who try telling us blacks about King.
This is MARTIN LUTHER KINGS DAUGHTER TALKING.
Martin Luther King Jr’s Daughter: ‘Many Who Quote Him Now Would Have Hated Him Then’
Stephen Silver
Monday is Martin Luther King Day, and in the social media era, it’s been a common occurance for individuals, political movements, and brands to quote Dr. King — or use his legacy in ways that the legendary civil rights leader may not have approved.
Someone else has noticed this tendency: Dr. King’s youngest daughter, Bernice King.
“Many who quote him now would have hated him then,” Bernice wrote on her Twitter account Sunday night. “He was assassinated for trying to eradicate the evils some claim he’d support today. But he was a Christ-centered, love-fueled, justice-seeking, peacemaking, globally-minded, nonviolent revolutionary & prophet.”
Some conservatives have seized on the “I Have a Dream” speech line, “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,” as an argument against affirmative action and for “color blind” policies. Others have argued, per Human Events, that King was actually a conservative or a Republican. This is false, according to PolitiFact.
Martin Luther King Jr’s Daughter: ‘Many Who Quote Him Now Would Have Hated Him Then’
This is MARTIN LUTHER KINGS DAUGHTER TALKING.
Martin Luther King Jr’s Daughter: ‘Many Who Quote Him Now Would Have Hated Him Then’
Stephen Silver
Monday is Martin Luther King Day, and in the social media era, it’s been a common occurance for individuals, political movements, and brands to quote Dr. King — or use his legacy in ways that the legendary civil rights leader may not have approved.
Someone else has noticed this tendency: Dr. King’s youngest daughter, Bernice King.
“Many who quote him now would have hated him then,” Bernice wrote on her Twitter account Sunday night. “He was assassinated for trying to eradicate the evils some claim he’d support today. But he was a Christ-centered, love-fueled, justice-seeking, peacemaking, globally-minded, nonviolent revolutionary & prophet.”
Some conservatives have seized on the “I Have a Dream” speech line, “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,” as an argument against affirmative action and for “color blind” policies. Others have argued, per Human Events, that King was actually a conservative or a Republican. This is false, according to PolitiFact.
Martin Luther King Jr’s Daughter: ‘Many Who Quote Him Now Would Have Hated Him Then’