PoliticsSunday 09.13.20

Revisionist History—Martin Luther King Jr.

Broadly portraying the Black Lives Matter movement as “violent,” many Republicans have praised MLK as the model of “peaceful” protest. That’s revisionist history. In the 1960s, Dr. King faced nearly identical criticism.

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