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Originally Posted by zeek
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...-division.html
This morning, Fox News marked the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday by publishing the article I linked above with the headline "Please stop politicizing Martin Luther King Day. It's a day for national unity, not political division."
Fox is deliberately revising what this day means -- and distorting what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for and actually believed. He knew that his life and the work of racial and economic justice were antithetical to a cheap, easy comfortable status quo.
With a GOP aministration in the White House, working with Fox News to reinforce white supremacy and attack Black protest, it's worth remembering exactly what Dr. King actually said about racial justice, economic justice, and politics. Here are a few key ideas Dr. King stated or wrote during his life:
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"Shallow understanding" and "Lukewarm acceptance" are two very judgmental terms.
"White america" and "White moderates" are two very racists terms.