The Myth of MLK is so much more pervasive than the man himself.
The education surrounding the civil rights movement begins with boycotts and ends when MLK dies (we mostly just get the picture of his compatriots on a balcony and the note that JFK died about the same time and shrug that's the 60s for you, crazy right?) You'd never know the 70s and 80s even happened, the way the movement is popularized in school and in the movies. MLK was just the nice man who wanted little black boys and little white girls to play together. The solution was the Civil Rights Act, which we got, because LBJ was nice enough to give it to us. And now Black People just need to work hard to catch up to where the White People are at. Maybe they need, like, Pell Grants or Business Tax Credits or something to help. But mostly they need to just pull their pants up and stop listening to the Rap Music, which MLK would have definitely disapproved of.
I think MLK did his part too. I blame Americans for being too stupid to understand the actual story.
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Oh yeah?😎 Well, as a 💯💯REAL💯💯🇱🇷 American🇺🇸 lemme just say this:
You right, we dumb as hell.
The Myth of MLK is so much more pervasive than the man himself.
The education surrounding the civil rights movement begins with boycotts and ends when MLK dies (we mostly just get the picture of his compatriots on a balcony and the note that JFK died about the same time and shrug that's the 60s for you, crazy right?) You'd never know the 70s and 80s even happened, the way the movement is popularized in school and in the movies. MLK was just the nice man who wanted little black boys and little white girls to play together. The solution was the Civil Rights Act, which we got, because LBJ was nice enough to give it to us. And now Black People just need to work hard to catch up to where the White People are at. Maybe they need, like, Pell Grants or Business Tax Credits or something to help. But mostly they need to just pull their pants up and stop listening to the Rap Music, which MLK would have definitely disapproved of.