Don’t limit yourself to acknowledging Dr. King during a single weekend in January.
I’ve been asked if my kids were born drug addicted. Strangers have approached us to ask my kids if they enjoy playing basketball—not knowing if they play any sports at all.—and mixed them up with other black kids—well past the beginning of the school year.
Racism is pervasive and ever-present. It is systemic—in work places, in educational institutions, in politics, and in courtrooms. Racism isn’t limited to something horrible that happened on southern plantations and during Jim Crow. Racial violence is today’s reality too. Some racism is blatant, while some is more discreet. But no matter how racism presents itself, all of it is harmful.
The only people who are buying into the fleeting and faux-woke MLK quote nonsense are those who are also blissfully ignorant. Every time I see a post, it feels like a slap in the face. . So is the attempt to reduce Dr. King to a few words instead of the acknowledging the road he paved for others.it comes with his raw truth-sharing. What I’m not here for is the person who posts a white-favored MLK quote one day each year, while not posting a single pro-black story, quote, or video from February through December.
Would quote-posters protest alongside King if he were alive today, showing up as white allies? Will they be using their right to vote to elect people of color into positions of leadership? Are they talking to their employers about ditching discriminatory hair policies?
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