Tag: MLK

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Dear White People Who Only Acknowledge MLK on His Birthday…

It's always that time of year where my friends and strangers scour the inter webs for their absolute favorite MLK quote to post, and completely forget about it for the remaining 364 days until his birthday again the following year. And it's usually the same quote that they don't believe in themselves, namely the one about judging someone by the content of their character and not the color of
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The Protests Made Me End Friendships. And I’m Okay With That.

I've always wondered if I would've been marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King back in the 1960's. He was wildly unpopular and when he died, he had an unpopularity rating around 70%. He marched, he protested, and he was very radical. The history books would make it seem he was a mild-manner Negro who sang "We Shall Overcome" and be done with it. He was a lot more than