A Black pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church is assailed as a Marxist, a subversive anti-American. No, not Raphael Warnock… well, not *just* him. Mehdi explains how the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. has been whitewashed by some of the same cultural forces that vilified him.
Dec 18, 2020 · 12:55 AM UTC
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"In some ways, on every MLK Day, we kill him all over again," says @esglaude. "We don't want to grapple with what he was talking about with the Poor People's Campaign." Making King "into Santa Claus," he adds, is "part of narrowing the scope of Black politics."
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