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theydocrimes:corporationsarepeople: alwaysbewoke: alwaysbewoke: to be clear the first one is the original. i just riffed on it because it’s a powerful message. And yes MLK said all the quotes above. The sanitized version and image most have of him is wholly false. [Image Descriptions: The first eight images in this post are a political cartoon of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at a podium while a white audience says to each other: “I prefer the guy who talks about dreams and stuff.” This art is credited to Carlson, copyright 2015. Each of the first eight images are different only in what the cartoon MLK Jr is saying.Image 1: The text the he speaks reads: “There are literally two americas… one America is overflowing with the milk of prosperity… but there is another America. In this America people are poor by the millions. They find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. - MLK, 1967”Image 2: “Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.”Image 3: “Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population.”Image 4: “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”Image 5: “Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”Image 6: “I am sorry to say that the vast majority of white Americans are racists. Either consciously or unconsciously.”Image 7: “Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It’s always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it’s always something pure, high and clean. Well I want to get the language right tonight.I want to get the language so right that everyone here will cry out: ‘Yes, I’m Black, I’m proud of it. I’m Black and I’m beautiful!’”Image 8: “The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.”Image 9: A tweet from @BerniceKing with an attached picture of MLK Jr. that reads: “Don’t act like everyone loved my father. He was assassinated. A 1967 poll reflected that he was one of the most hated men in America. Most hated. Many who quote him now and evoke him to deter justice today would likely hate, and may already hate, the authentic King. #MLK.”/END ID.] -- source link