Wrote this two years ago. Still true.
Take a look at these two pictures.
What do you think of these two guys? Go ahead, jot down a few thoughts.
Okay.
I hate to break it to you, but you just told yourself more or less exactly what you’d think of Martin Luther King Jr. if he were still alive, or (having just had his 86th birthday, after all) if he’d been allowed to live a normal human lifespan and was no longer with us.
Yes. Really.
No, he wasn’t different. Look at the things white people were saying about Martin Luther King Jr. when he was alive. People say the exact same things about Jackson and Sharpton. Word for goddamn word.
Publicity hound? Outside agitator? Stuck his nose in where it didn’t belong? Communist? White people said all that shit about King, and white people say all that shit about Jackson and Sharpton now. (Okay, Al Sharpton to my…
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