Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it.
On Wednesday, the daughter of the late-civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out comedian Amy Schumer for implying that he would have supported Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip.
Dr. King was killed so people could put words in his mouth.
Don’t forget posting small excerpts of larger works that completely miss the larger meaning in favor of a modern political agenda.
That’s the how of the same point. They did the thing you said, to accomplish what you replied to.
Erase who’s making the most sound and has a following, then control what people can learn about it.
Otherwise the kids grow up and know better than what they’re told in class
Totally agree. Opponents of affirmative action, reparations, and the like will quote this: line:
Without doing the basic research to find that MLK Jr. was in favor of reparations. Or try to bend his words to supporting capitalism when he was more socialist (though he opposed totalitarian communism).
“Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses.”