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Jan 28 4 tweets 1 min read
I asked to which of MLK’s words he referred. It was, unsurprisingly, this:

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

So, interesting thing: As far as I can tell, MLK never said those words.
I do at least know that it’s not what he said in his famed “I have a dream” speech. There he said:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
He was talking about the way his specific nation treated his specific children, because they are Black.

But there’s a very popular bowlderization out there, that somehow manages to excise those details.

Interesting.
It’s just so weird, isn’t it? That so many people who revere the words of Martin Luther King Jr. only ever managed to revere those specific words, and even then they’ve changed the words and the meaning and the context?

Crazy mistake. What are the odds.

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