Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion/Commentary: Want to quote MLK? Then capture the authentic King, not the whitewashed version.
Thanks to Baltimore labor activist and historian Bill Barry for alerting us to this article.
MLK’s messages were beautifully simple — “I have a dream” — but not always. Politicians should represent MLK as he was — including the views that made him unpopular before his death.
By RANN MILLER FOR THE INQUIRER
As another MLK Day arrives, politicians across the spectrum will post pictures with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., using them as a veil to conceal all the ways their policies don’t align with his philosophies.
Instead of, like King, advocating for voting rights, economic and environmental justice, and criminal justice, today’s legislators have contributed to the erosion of voting rights, implemented inhumane immigration policies, and funded conflicts like the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
So when I see them quoting MLK, I can only think of one word: hypocrites.