The “Whitewashing” of Martin Luther King Jr.

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…