Monday 12 July 2010
…King’s words these days are treated with the kind of disingenuous but-of-course lip service usually reserved for the Bible or the Constitution. Martin Luther King Jr. is frequently cited as something like a talisman — as an invocation and a protective inoculation. King is invoked most often these days defensively, as a counter-balance to some statement or stance that would otherwise seem to contradict the great revival of civil rights that King the preacher and person and actual historical figure embodied. slacktivist ☀
