Here, let us Fix that for you.
Here, let us Fix that for you.
Be Careful supporting and celebrating the false identities created by the White Americans to sanitize Rev. Dr. King Jr. to make him and the whole racial and social justice movement more comfortable for White Americans.
Oh yes, they claim they love him so dearly, I tell you to pay attention, they continue to tell us that they don’t share his life's purpose with the values, integrity and fight for justice that he lived.
Folks want to feel comfortable so they make him a magical negro by always using the “I Have A Dream” part of that speech creating a version of Rev. Dr. King that makes him seem docile. To make him appear that he held their feelings higher than the fight for our human rights and American freedoms.
This is willfully choosing to ignore the Rev. Dr. King Jr. who called White America “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.“
And to ignore this,
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. The reality of substantial investment to assist Negroes into the twentieth century, adjusting to Negro neighbors and genuine school integration, is still a nightmare for all too many white Americans…These are the deepest causes for contemporary abrasions between the races. Loose and easy language about equality, resonant resolutions about brotherhood fall pleasantly on the ear, but for the Negro there is a credibility gap he cannot overlook. He remembers that with each modest advance the white population promptly raises the argument that the Negro has come far enough. Each step forward accents an ever-present tendency to backlash.”
— Where Do We Go From Here: 1967
Oh, they love the version of Rev. Dr. King who wanted all people to be "judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin", but they devalue the Rev. Dr. King who said,
“I am sorry to have to say that the vast majority of White Americans are racists, either consciously or unconsciously.”
As if the truth about their characters is invisible to us, because it's not. It's always been quite clear.
They adore the Rev. Dr. King who said “let freedom ring,”
Yet, stand against those of us who continue to have to fight for All the freedoms that he was murdered for fighting to have them released from being held hostage from us.
The same freedoms that White Americans today still feel we do not deserve and continue to not help us Fight for all that is rightfully ours as Americans.
And then there's the whole why are we still having to fight for what is rightfully given to White Americans and not us truth.
And by Only lifting up the White American sanitized version of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, they reveal more about their flawed character, they reveal more about their true motives and more that speaks loudly they align with white supremacy and racism then they realize. We are not fooled as they continue to fool themselves.
They do Black Women like this Every day.
They will always fight to keep Whiteness above all else as that is their way of keeping power and privilege theirs.