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How to honor Martin Luther King Jr. online

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Today's blog/Twitter/column categories:

  • For anyone: Quote Martin Luther King Jr. so you can acknowledge MLK Day without doing any real work.
  • Repeat his belief that Chicago was worse than the South.
  • Print an entire speech/work. "Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" are the favorites, but less prominent speeches/works can show sophistication. The Riverside Church speech is a good one.
  • For liberals: Point out ways that MLK was a full-blown economic revolutionary, not just a cuddly, nonviolent civil rights leader.
  • Make your audience go hmmm by declaring that dissent is the real patriotism.
  • For conservatives: Point out that MLK would have been a conservative today.
  • Continue to oppose any legislation that helps Black people and assert that MLK would have agreed.
  • For the ambitious: Write a couple thousand words comparing Ukraine to the civil rights movement, with Volodymyr Zelensky cast as a modern-day MLK.
  • For the visually minded: Post a photograph of some kind.

14 thoughts on “How to honor Martin Luther King Jr. online”

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  2. rick_jones

    I still wonder about that sculpture. Intellectually I suppose I get the coming out of the mountain, but it still looks like an example of reformed Soviet Brutalism.

    1. Salamander

      It looked to me as if it was just too much trouble to actually finish a monument to a black guy. Yes, I'm not an art sophisticate. I also didn't care for that new "Embrace" thing recently unveiled, which I guess was some kind of monument to MLK's well-known womanizing?

  3. cld

    For conservatives: Point out that MLK would have been a conservative today.

    Ha! Not if he'd met any of those idiots he wouldn't be. Can you imagine even one of them marching with MLK back in the day?

    I can imagine most of them cheering on firebombing a church, and the rest thinking they had it coming.

  4. rrhersh

    "Volodymyr Zelensky cast as a modern-day MLK." Kevin is an optimist. A Real True Conservative is more likely to place Putin in that role, bravely fighting the Ukrainian Jewish Nazi.

  6. rick_jones

    Print an entire speech/work. "Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" are the favorites, but less prominent speeches/works can show sophistication. The Riverside Church speech is a good one.

    May one do that without a license these days, or would that attract the gaze of the King Family?

    Why do I ask? Because when I was looking up the provenance/history of the King Monument I came across: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial#Fees_to_King_family

    1. golack

      Those fees do seem excessive, but insisting on licensing his image and likeness gives the family some control over said images and likenesses. And if they do not exercise control over it, they will lose control over it.

  7. iamr4man

    One thing I do every year on MLK day is re-read the interview he did with Playboy magazine. It gives me an idea of his thoughts that aren’t in the form of a formal speech. I think anyone who reads it would be dispelled of any notion that the man would be a conservative today. It is available to read digitally on Kindle or a Kindle app:
    https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-King-Playboy-Interview-ebook/dp/B0092TV234/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FZDMCSQ0SB5V&keywords=playboy+interview+martin+luther+king&qid=1673895226&sprefix=%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-1

  8. Jim Carey

    My assumption is that, if your response was to truly care about the influence of your actions on the lives of others, including people you don't know, and especially the marginalized, King would be happy.

  9. rwhalen

    Kevin: Write a couple thousand words comparing Ukraine to the civil rights movement, with Volodymyr Zelensky cast as a modern-day MLK.

    ChatGPT: It would be inappropriate to cast the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, as a modern-day Martin Luther King Jr. as the civil rights movement in the United States and the political situation in Ukraine are vastly different...

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