[Image description: 6 moving GIFS of Martin Luther King with the text: Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything black ugly and evil. Look in in your dictionary and see the synonyms for the word black. It’s always something low and sinister. Look at the word white. It’s always something pure, high, clean. Well, I wanna get the language right tonight.]

noonaneomuhomo:

lusts:

The MLK that’s never quoted.

and it’s no accident that this segment is conveniently left out of our education

The white-washing of MLK jr. and the civil rights movement on a whole to make history look kindly upon white folk and convince POC of the disempowering lie that is “Be polite, nice, & don’t challenge us & you’ll get your rights” is one that disgusts me to no end.