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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Question for Americans, how common is it that a person can drop a single quote from "I have a dream" speech (other than "I have a dream" parts lol)?

I guess some tiny portion people do because civil rights classes, it's bound to stick with some people, but I feel that for the most part it's just astroturfed meme, just like plagiarizing doctor himself.

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're correct, most American schools have an ironically lackluster presentation of MLK. The Kingology is usually just enforced with a general "blacks are now legally equal" without any context, and his "murder" by a white man served as a good segway into the next stage of our Negrolatry, where changing the laws wasn't good enough and whites will always impede blacks in the US, if not by law than by social pressure and treatment. The conclusion isn't too hard to understand, if we can't be equal, one side has to go.

On a related note, Malcolm X was a much better black rights activist, who was not an astroturfed meme, and the blacks ended up killing him. He doesn't fit into the liberal narrative and is largely expunged from the American mythos, but he has more of a right to the throne MLK sits on in our history.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Malcolm X was a much better black rights activist,

Absolutely. Had some very harsh words for Jews and White liberals as well.

A bit like Marcus Garvey and W.E. DuBois though the system has done its best to shine the light on the worst of the Black advocates. Malcolm X and Garvey were for Black independence and self-reliance not sitting there screaming for decades at Whitey for a handout.

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, especially about Garvey. It's a shame nothing more could have happened with Pan-Africanism, the world might unironically be better.