Sean GonsalvesA longish #BlackMastodon photo 🧵as we head into #MLKDay weekend with its mostly saccharine remembrances and "celebrations” of a complex prophet born Michael Luther King Jr.
The man, not the myth calling …
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When my son was young and first starting to learn about Martin Luther King (someone I studied in great detail as a kid into my adulthood), I wanted to make MLK real to him and not let him come away with the watered down myth corporate America has embraced …
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I told my son King smoked cigarettes, wore Aramis cologne because the after shave he used King said smelled like cat $@&+ …
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