also WHO, lesser known figures who get passed over to talk about the Rosa Parks’ MLKs’ and Washington Carvers’
Like Henrietta Lacks
the fact that MLK went to speak to striking workers despite death threats and was killed for it. Also the fact that the same liberals who had granted the civil rights reforms called him an uppitty n-word when he called for economic reform
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