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Nikole Hannah-Jones on history, using MLK

2022-01-18 20:24:22.936814+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

This is fantastic. I saw it scroll across yesterday, and was like "yeah, of course that's what MLK Jr. wrote", but then I saw all of the praises of Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday, quotes with mysterious ellipses in the middle, the NHL praising him without dialing back their shunning of Colin Kaepernick, and went back and read it today, and it's worth a read.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of The 1619 Project: tweeted the thread that starts here:

I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"

which describes the speech she gave using excerpts from King's speeches. As mentioned in the MeFi thread:

Rarely has the word “outsmarted” been so literally demonstrated.

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