White dudes whitesplaining Martin Luther King to his son. Enjoy.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Proud liberal 80]

2. MLK Jr was hated

By conservatives and a lot of white people....I hate how they use him now as their go to Black hero on how things should be, as if they always supported him. If you read that whole thread it would make you mad.....I found this post to really be infuriating

Julia Gunnells
@craftelady
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If Ben Carson can lift himself up from poverty & become a top surgeon, what's holding you back? Whites & Blacks marched together w/MLK, united!! We fought for desegregation & now you kids push for segregation, pushing the country back 50 yrs!!

Yes, whites did March with MLK, but that was a minority of whites, and I doubt that she would have been one of them....Everything in that lady’s twitter feed is right wing propaganda, but Black people want to push the country back 50 years....GTFOH!

[Alacritous Crier]

6. Word.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, and not just by conservatives ... he was shaking all standards

[yardwork]

8. It does make me angry.

[Sunsky]

3. Wow, the gall of these people.

Sometimes you just have to people to STFU.
I've see it all over, even on here. White people who feel they know better than us and therefore feel the need to lecture/ educate us; who try to tell us what is right from what is wrong or the proper way to think, feel and act. No way, not today.

[marble falls]

4. That was disapointing. Makes me more determined than ever to start checking 'other' ...

when asked of my race.

[ck4829]

5. You can see the hubris from here, the time has come

[ismnotwasm]

9. Typical

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. "... white society more concerned about tranquility & status quo than justice & humanity". Nails it.

[demmiblue]

11. Interesting article regarding his speech at GPHS:

Martin Luther King Jr. defied hecklers in Grosse Pointe speech in 1968



Martin Luther King Jr. missed his flight and would be an hour late.

Jude Huetteman sensed trouble. The predominately white crowd of supporters and hecklers that gathered at Grosse Pointe High School for the speech was growing hostile by the minute.

“What was I to do with this brewing crowd during the delay?” Huetteman, a member of the Grosse Pointe Human Relations Council, which invited King to speak, asked herself on March 14, 1968. “I knew that we could not hold 3,200 people in that atmosphere without something happening.”

Huetterman and other council members had been receiving death threats and were forced to take out a $1 million insurance policy to protect the school.

Grosse Pointe High SchoolFearing violence would break out in a community long opposed to racial integration, Huetteman arranged for a police escort to whisk King from the airport and rush him to the high school. Sitting in the car with King, Hutteman was too nervous to speak.

“Inwardly I was scared, for the chief because of what he was facing, for Dr. King because he didn’t know what he was facing and for us because we knew, but were going on,” Huetteman wrote for a column in the Detroit Free Press in 1974. “We were on our way and there was no turning back.”

As the car approached the crowd, Grosse Pointe Farms Police Chief Jack Roh opened the front door and sat on King’s lap to protect him.

http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2017/01/15/martin-luther-king-jr-defied-hecklers-grosse-pointe-speech-1968/

This is GPHS: