This MLK day, as in years prior, people all over the country will learn that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that black children and white children would one day play and go to school together without having to call National Guard to protect them from the red-blooded American conservatives who cant deal with, among many things, non-white people and/or progress. With the election of our first black President, surely, we are told, Kings dream is now a reality... so much so, that we can can now congratulate ourselves on our evolution by adding a made-in-China MLK statue to the National Mall. Tragically, among the many myths were told in America, its no surprise that MLK has undergone the standard whitewash from which hes been transformed from an anti-militarism revolutionary for social and economic justice into an orator who pondered, Rodney King-style platitudes about why cant we all just get along?
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:38:01 +0000
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