Every year on January 15, every SINGLE year [View all]

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I try to prepare myself for the barrage of MLK threads in GD and for the historical ignorance, tone deafness and overall white washing that always, ALWAYS follows the man around like a bad smell on this board.

I brace myself for the endless threads about how he wasn't "just" a civil rights hero.

I prepare myself for the endless conversations about his involvement in XYZ and how that was equally if not MORE important than his civil rights work.

I steel myself for how his speech on ABC issue was equally if not MORE important than his speeches on black rights and black oppression.

I try to prepare for the comments about how all white people during the Civil Rights Movement loved him and how the only ones that didn't were Republican/conservative/Southern/any group the person speaking is NOT a member of.

I know we've talked about the distortions, white washiing and just flat out dishonesty surrounding MLK over and over and over again in this group and you'd think by now I'd just be used to it.

But yet somehow, every year. Every SINGLE year it just makes me want to knock some heads.