A 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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@seanalan what a great thread and pics! I especially like the 1st on the phone. Did you have to explain rotary dial pay phones to your son? I remember having to do that with my kids - I got a lot of funny looks that day!
@tpak I don’t remember if he asked about the rotary phone but I do recall a diff convo when he was incredulous at the thought that TV actually went off air every night when I was a kid 😂
@seanalan ha, that and you had to get out of your seat to change the channel and there were not 500 channels and a DVR! These threads make me feel old every time!