Right Wing Tries To Hijack MLK's Messages
After the kangaroo Christian nationalist Supreme Court overturned affirmative-action, Republican lawmakers and their media minions tried to erase Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful messages and replace them with their conservative, racist beliefs.
And let's not forget, in this opinion, race is not done.
They said that they can talk about individual struggles.
So you can use your race to show your character, to show how you overcame adversity, your strength and your courage.
Look, as a young man, I lost my father to a drunk driver.
My brother committed suicide.
So when I wrote my essays, it wasn't about that, but it was about how I overcame that.
It showed my character.
That's what won today rather than the color of your skin.
You know, one of the things that many people, especially on the right, have taken away is that this basically fulfills Dr. King's dream of saying that you would be judged by the content of your character, not by the color of your skin.
Yeah, that is a good point.
But I would say Dr. King would probably be against this decision, and he would be profoundly shocked by it.
This a-hole uses his personal tragedies as a template to brag about his character? That has nothing to do with civil rights on any level. Racism is not about character, but all about hatred. How can one's character be properly judged when you are immediately dismissed by the color of your skin?