[photo set: moving images of Martin Luther King Jr delivering a sermon a day before his assassination. Text reads, “somebody told a lie one day. they couched it in language. they made everything black, ugly and evil. look in your dictionary and see the synonyms for the word black. it’s always something degrading, low and sinister. look at the word white. it’s always something pure, high, clean. well, I wanna get the language right tonight.”]
and it’s no accident that this segment is conveniently left out of our education
The white-washing of MLK jr. and the civil rights movement on a whole to make history look kindly upon white folk and convince POC of the disempowering lie that is “Be polite, nice, & don’t challenge us & you’ll get your rights” is one that disgusts me to no end.
It’s always funny to see that Malcolm X is pitched against MLK on the facet of pro-black/ness… most of their tactics were different, but they were definitely both militantly pro-black.
(Source: samljackson)
