A good day to remember MLK was one of the most despised men in the country, subject to constant surveillance and harassment by the government, and that the means by which his life’s work has been twisted and weaponized by those same people is what we’re fighting now.
King would be horrified but probably not surprised to see that the same people who attacked him have relentlessly used his legacy to launder their own white supremacy and weaponized it to curb grassroots movements for reform.
White supremacy has not been defeated and the Civil Rights Movement was not the end of the struggle, but a chapter in an ongoing book. This is a day to remember that and that the forces of racism, greed, and exploitation are shameless about their methods in maintaining control.
The battle against the “CRT” conspiracy theory and the Right’s push to control history is exactly about this. They want desperately to weaponize history in order to twist reality, hide their tracks, and reestablish a society where white capitalist supremacy goes unexamined.
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