Even as I was revisiting/ spinning off this thread all day, I just really sat with the fact that King died 8 years before I was born about an hour ago. I never considered the math.

Like, if we put it in a modern time frame - it I was born today, MLK died when Take Care came out https://twitter.com/naima/status/1318186824158859265

But it was already presented as something that happened in a far away era, which I suppose the CRM must have felt like once it was over.
The fact that he was hanging next to Jesus on every Black grandma's wall made it feel like time far and away, too