George Pyle: Burgess Owens, Chris Stewart and others quote King’s words while opposing his principles.
It is either the height of dishonesty or the pinnacle of ignorance to try to associate yourself with Martin Luther King’s legacy while at the same time denying the core of the man’s message.
That’s what King said, in his March on Washington speech, when he told us that the sentiments and aspirations of Declaration of Independence constituted, when it came to Black Americans, a bounced check. Today’s Republican platform opposes everything the Civil Rights Movement was about. It has, in state legislatures, Congress and the courts, eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. It won’t raise the minimum wage. It won’t make access to health care a basic human service. It doesn’t see the need to do anything about the number of unarmed Black men shot in the streets by police.
King knew that there are forms of anti-Black and anti-poor violence that aren’t as blatant as guns or dogs or firehoses. He knew that people not having access to an honorable way to make a good living and have a decent home, not being allowed to take your children to the same amusement parks that white kids go to, not be able to get the same level of education or health care, are all forms of violence.
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