Thread by @timjacobwise

Hey @realchrisrufo. Serious Q: anti CRT legislation seeks to ban teaching that could "promote division" or cause discomfort for a racial group. So, should schools ban MLKs Letter from Birmingham Jail, which condemns white moderates bc some white folks might feel attacked?...(1)

Or how about his book Why We Can't Wait, where he endorsed aff action, or his statement in the I Have a Dream Speech re America giving Black folks a bad check marked 'insufficient funds.' Is that un-American bc it recognized how racism had been foundational to the country?...(2)

Or his last address to the SCLC in which he noted the importance of Black folks affirming their beauty, a self-affirmation "made compelling by the white man's crimes against him." I mean, talking of "the white man's crimes?" My goodness...how racist, right Chris?...(3)

Or how, in an essay written shortly before his death but published after it, King blasted white America, specifically for "ingrained and tenacious racism." I mean, how can you allow THAT to be taught, right Chris (and other CRT critics). So, be honest...(4)

You would basically seek to ban anything MLK ever said except that one line from that one speech (which even then you've misunderstood) and reduce him to a single soundbite bc everything else he wrote and said would run afoul of these new laws. (5)...

MLK made white people uncomfortable and angry. The real one still does, because the real one--not the sanitized version you prefer--called white America out on its bullshit and said America was "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Admit you want MLK banned...