Happy MLKish Day!!! The Unfortunate Exploitation of Dr King's Legacy

DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Jan. 15, 2018 - PRLog -- Given the current socio-political climate of the United States, many well-intentioned MLK Day organizers missed out on a golden opportunity to reflect on the content of MLKs book, Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community, which pretty much predicted that it should be expected that a Donald Trump would follow a Barack Obama into the presidency, along with throngs of white supremacists marching for their rights. It would clarify why even the most liberal seeming of white people would unconsciously operate under the perceptions of white supremacy and white privilege.

This year in Dallas, protest by the NAACP shut down the MLK Day observation, when organizers saw fit to invite Governor Greg Abbott as the keynote speaker. Abbott's political tenure routinely opposes many of the tenets of freedom, justice and equality that MLK represented, including his imposition of Gerry-Mandering exclusively in communities of color in an effort to frustrate the possibility of people block voting in their own interests. The fact that the organizers chose Abbott as the keynote speaker for an MLK Day event demonstrates how far removed these organizers are from the realities of MLKs legacy as well as their obvious removal from their their own constituency.

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