The real Dr. King:

"With Selma and the voting rights bill one era of our struggle came to a close and a new era came into being. Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know now that it isn’t enough to integrate lunch counters. 1/
2/ "What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee? What does it profit a man to be able to eat at the swankiest integrated restaurant when he doesn’t earn enough money to take
3/ "his wife out to dine? What does it profit one to have access to the hotels of our city and the motels of our highway when we don’t earn enough money to take our family on a vacation? What does it profit one to be able to attend an integrated school when he doesn’t earn
4/ "enough money to buy his children school clothes?

"... [N]ow is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to make an adequate income a reality for all of God’s children. Now is the time for city hall to take a position for that which is just and honest.
5/5 "Now is the time for justice to roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. Now is the time."

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20 Jul
Honestly, is @OStrachan lying or just too ignorant to be writing books on this?

This is his "definition" of "Critical Race Theory." Basically a string of false claims and then what is really MLK's "solution," hahaha. 1/
2/ CRT scholars do not say that ONLY White people can be racist. Here are co-founders of CRT, Charles Lawrence III on the left and Delgado & Stefancic on the right:
3/ And had a mentioned a CRT solution, or an MLK solution? Let's see:
Read 4 tweets
18 Jul
For folks who want to cut through this embarrassingly ignorant propaganda, here's a reading list on CRT and civil rights discourse:

1. "Taking Rights Aggressively," by Robert Williams

scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewconten…
3. "The Clouded Prism," by Harlan Dalton

digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/204…
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4 Jul
Here's another reading path that will blow your mind:

1. American Slavery, American Freedom, by Edmond Morgan

amazon.com/dp/B00CHH2G8S/…
2. The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward Baptist

amazon.com/dp/B01HXM0R9Q/…
3. Black Reconstruction in America, by W. E. B. Du Bois

amazon.com/dp/B00IJC320G/…
Read 8 tweets
4 Jul
Tell me if this sounds familiar:

"[R]acial dog whistling ... involves ... three basic moves: a punch that jabs race into the conversation through thinly veiled references to threatening nonwhites, for instance to welfare cheats or illegal aliens; a parry that slaps away 1/
2/ "charges of racial pandering, often by emphasizing the lack of any direct reference to a racial group or any use of an epithet; and finally a kick that savages the critic for opportunistically alleging racial victimization. The complex jujitsu of racial dog whistling lies at
3/3 "the center of a new way of talking about race that constantly emphasizes racial divisions, heatedly denies that it does any such thing, and then presents itself as a target of self-serving charges of racism." ~@IanHaneyLopez

Just turn on Tucker for a too obvious example.
Read 5 tweets
2 Jul
This period of racial retrenchment, specifically the rabid anti-CRT rage, is nothing new. You can cut and paste MLK's words from 50 years ago:

"It is called the “white backlash.” But the white backlash is nothing new. It is the surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities and 1/
2/ "ambivalences that have always been there. It was caused neither by the cry of Black Power nor by the unfortunate recent wave of riots in our cities. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in
3/ "chains on the shores of this nation. The white backlash is an expression of the same vacillations, the same search for rationalizations, the same lack of commitment that have always characterized white America on the question of race. What is the source of this perennial
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