America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings.
Their new one is proclaiming MLK was a reactionary who opposed diversity
You should see what India has done with Gandhi.
Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious
100% this
I love to remind these people that non violent protest does not mean non confrontational
Letter from Birmingham County Jail was famously an apology to white moderates for the protests breaking the law in the Jim Crow south.
Me, every time someone quotes "I have a dream" out of context: NO, read THIS one
[In this Dr. King resembles Jesus, who was deeply radical but who has been reinvented in popular imagination as a sort of safe youth pastor who really believes in love but you could totally see leaving for an internship at Deloitte.]
It's total gaslighting.