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For those of you who are offended by the #1619Project and may erroneously use my father’s quotes to defend your offense, read the ‘Racism and the White Backlash’ chapter in his book, ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ first. Quotes from ‘WDWGFH’ follow. @nhannahjones 
“Ever since the birth of our nation, white America has had a schizophrenic personality on the question of race.” #MLK
“She has been torn between selves—a self in which she proudly professed the great principles of democracy and a self in which she sadly practiced the antithesis of democracy.” #MLK
“There has never been a solid, unified and determined thrust to make justice a reality for Afro-Americans.” #MLK
“The roots of racism are very deep in America. Historically it was so acceptable in the national life that today it still only lightly burdens the conscience.” #MLK
“No one surveying the moral landscape of our nation can overlook the hideous and pathetic wreckage of commitment twisted and turned to a thousand shapes under the stress of prejudice and irrationality.” #MLK
“This does not imply that all white Americans are racists—far from it. Many white people have, through a deep moral compulsion, fought long and hard for racial justice.” #MLK
“Nor does it mean that America has made no progress in her attempt to cure the body politic of the disease of racism, or that the dogma of racism has not been considerably modified in recent years.” #MLK
“HOWEVER [emphasis mine], for the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality while racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists.” #MLK
Also, he said this:
