The 2020 Candidates Can’t Sanitize Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy

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The 2020 Candidates Can’t Sanitize Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy
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On MLKDay, how can the 2020 candidates honor Dr. King's legacy? yumcoconutmilk says that honoring his true beliefs, not the sanatized lessons, is the thing.

,” which King wrote in solitary confinement after being arrested for mass protest on April 12, 1963, King said, “For years now I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I think if King were here today, he’d ask, “What’s the point of ousting a tyrant if the people are still not free?” Removing Trump from office would not be enough for him. He would want his dream realized, the dream of a “radical redistribution of economic and political power.

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