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The “Whitewashing” of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Judson Stacy Vereen
Apr 20, 2023
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Around the time of, and during the subsequent aftermath of various BLM protests, the flooding of MLK quotes began to reappear by the thousands in well-intentioned Instagrammers, Facebookers, and Twitter users. Mostly, they bang on the hits, the softer, more palatable to white folks’ quotes — the warm, loving inspiring kind. In fact, many of these very s…

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