Dear GOP: MLK had more than one quote, honest

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Opinion | @KevinMKruse: Republican officials have revealed that they don’t really understand critical race theory — and don’t really understand Martin Luther King Jr., either. - @MSNBCDaily

Opinion | Dear GOP: MLK had more than one quote, honest
Talking honestly about inequality, it turns out, was a special point of emphasis for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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5:17 AM · Jun 17, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/texas-ban-critical-race-theory-schools-proves-gop-still-doesn-n1271101?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma


Texas this week became the latest state to ban the teaching of critical race theory. The author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Steve Toth, has insisted that the measure was wholly in keeping with the vision of Martin Luther King Jr.

“It echoes Dr. King’s wish that we should judge people on the content of their character, not [the color of] their skin,” Toth told a reporter this month.

This talking point is apparently the new Republican orthodoxy. At a campaign rally last year, then-President Donald Trump claimed that “critical race theory is a Marxist doctrine that rejects the vision of Martin Luther King Jr.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likewise asserted that critical race theory was “basically teaching kids to hate our country and to hate each other based on race,” adding: “It puts race as the most important thing. I want content of character to be the most important thing.”

In making such comments, Republican officials reveal that they don’t really understand critical race theory — and don’t really understand Martin Luther King Jr., either.

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[LakeArenal]

1. "It puts race as the most important thing."

To a lot of people it is.

How can we coexist peacefully and equally.

White people are a spec in the population gambit of the world.

Sorry we are about to lose the majority in the US but that’s the way we’ve been headed since before the civil war.

It’s gonna happen fearful white people.

As one Republican lawmaker once said about another topic... just lay back and enjoy it.

[Solly Mack]

2. King was not saying be colorblind. He was not saying be unaware of his children's skin color.

He was not saying don't see my children's skin color.

He was saying see them as they are, black skin and all, and not judge them based on any racist stereotypes. To get to know them, to find out who they are, to give them a chance - to find out who they are as people. Not just black people- as human. As the same as you would a white child.

To claim you are colorblind means you don't see a person at all. You deny who they are and their experiences. You pretend skin hue doesn't matter in a racist society. Because racists make for damn sure it does - in a negative way.

Also - it's bullshit.

You see a person, you see their skin hue(no matter what lie you tell yourself) - and if you hold to any racist stereotypes - your mind will go there. Even if the thoughts never cross your lips.

King wasn't saying forget my children are black. He was saying let there be a day when their being black won't matter in how they are treated.

I have said it before on this board - I get so tired of that one quote being spouted by people who don't seem to grasp the full meaning of his words. Who take that one quote, decide it means something it clearly doesn't, both standing alone and in context of the entire speech. Or with the rest of King's words.

And, like the article in the OP - I am gobsmacked by the sheer stupidity it takes to recommend both the Dream speech and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" as an alternative to CRT because the idiots think both King and CRT are somehow in opposition one to the other.

[Casady1]

3. Every stupid republican should be

clockworked orange and made to watch this.

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