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.
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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."

Dec 18, 2020 · 12:57 AM UTC

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