Can we talk about the ways in which Martin Luther King's legacy and rhetoric has been weaponized against people of color, specifically Black people? It seems like anytime we point out any of the countless ways white supremacy has interwoven itself into institutions of power, (1)

There is a Karen ready to clap back with some MLK quote taken completely out of context. Does it click with these types that MLK was an advocate for Black liberation? Does it click with these types that MLK's politics are more closely aligned with anti-colonial / socialist (2)

figures like Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, or Malcolm X? Even though they had their disagreements, all of these Black history figures sought BLACK AND COLONIZED liberation through any means necessary. Their legacies have been white-washed and infantilized so that (3)

white audiences don't have to recognize that the civil rights movement was not little Timmy's birthday party. The civil rights movement was a VIOLENT STRUGGLE FOR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS THAT STILL CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. (4)