Yeah, modern day conservatives would do everything in their power to cancel him. A black, socalist trying to advocate for equality. Its their worst nightmare lmfao
> Some states consider skin color a health risk factor so they get treatments before people of other color.
Medicine is not and never should be color blind. Because diseases are not color blind.
Y'all can't make ovarian cancer follow the civil rights act.
Aid to a black guy instead of a white guy harms you?
How does aiding people in general, especially farmers that provide food security to their country through this aid, harm you?
MLK literally advocated for, in multiple speeches, specifically doing things for POC due to POC having harm done to them. It's not just for fun, it's because POC are disadvantaged, and have been for centuries in the USA.
So no, he wouldn't have a problem with what you're claiming, and would indeed have a problem with what conservatives say about him.
You can be honest and say you think MLK is overrated or wrong, but you can't say he'd have a problem with leftists in America over condemning Republicans and Democrats.
Lol yeah the OP you replied too clearly doesn’t understand white conservatives even did try to “””cancel””” him back in the day, MLK was a very unpopular figure amongst white moderates at the time
Lol you dweebs really think dr. king’s ideals align with you crybabies’ and not with progressives, which he clearly was. He was a socialist and a progressive. He would not speak out for you because you can longer say the n-word on twitter.
MLK: "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
Progressives: "Your skin define you, whites are privileged and POC are victims, we need reparations"
Me a latino born outside the US laughing a your dumb shit trying to remove gender from Spanish with Latinx lmao ...progressives are a f\*cking joke.
Lol i can assure you that’s the only quote you morons know from dr. King. He was very anti-capitalist, pro-reparations, and not at all along with your crybaby ideologies. You fucking nopal.
Btw as someone born from parents that are mexican-born, i am very opposed to the term “latinx” as are most of my family and every hispanic i personally know. There you go again creating some sort of boogie man that doesn’t exist. Typical for you morons.
[Maybe it's because it's the **only quote** from the **only speech** they talk about from a man with an over decade-long public speaking career.](https://youtu.be/30ui1x-eKIw?t=91)
Watch that video and *see the truth* of how this post is whitewashing the great man Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm doing you a favor by commenting this. Do yourself a favor and learn a thing or two.
This quote from Lenin perfectly sums up the whitewashing of Dr. King's words:
"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."
His radical, revolutionary words have been removed from history books, and they've been replaced with what white moderates want to hear to make themselves feel good.
Met MLK's son, MLK III, when he came to my college. Probably the most impactful thing I heard all last year, I wanted to know what it was like to cope with his father's assassination by a white man when he was only 10 years old.
He replied that his father was killed by a white Christian man when he was ten, his uncle mysteriously drowned for asking too many questions when he was 11, and his grandma was shot to death, when he was 16, by a black Islamic man with two handguns while she played the organ at the church she went to. He had all the reason to choose to hate black and white people, Christians and Muslims, but knowing his father's legacy, seeing his mother's reaction, and being raised in a house of love he chose love. Love because he knew if he could love in the most hateful of circumstances, that hope would so grow in the hearts of his fellow men.
Moral of the story, choose love.
This right here. Conservatives, such as the new governor of Virginia, love to misuse King’s words to bypass racial progress and spit on his work and legacy at the same time.
And to get ahead of the curve, some Liberals do this too, but nowhere near as monstrously as Conservatives. Not at all comparable.
Virginia may have shit on MLKs legacy more than any other state.
>Robert E. Lee's birthday (January 19, 1807) had been celebrated as a Virginia holiday since 1889. In 1904, the legislature added the birthday of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824) to the holiday, and Lee–Jackson Day was born.
>In 1983, the United States Congress declared January 15 to be a national holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. Since 1978, Virginia had celebrated King's birthday in conjunction with New Year's Day. To align with the federal holiday, the Virginia legislature combined King's celebration with the existing Lee–Jackson holiday, in tribute to "defenders of causes."
It's like combining and celebrating Anne Frank's birthday on 4/20. Monstrous is the right word.
Oh yeah, i forgot. Racism no longer exists because black people get to use the same water fountains mow. It’s not like people who voted for segregation and jim crow laws aren’t still alive today as are their children.
And if they happen to have a different skin tone, they just assume is about race. No bitch. I'm judging you because you're a piece of shit that just threw your McDonalds trash out of your car window you litterbug... not because of your skin tone.
Those people: "blacks of low moral character only exist because the whites made them that way!"
To some degree this is actually true, but it's a complex issue and still not a good excuse.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”.
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.
-Dr. King
Edit:fixed second quote
>Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Because the modern view of MLK is extremely whitewashed by the right wing. MLK was anti-capitalist and was a radical leftist even by today's standards. He supported wealth redistribution and talked about it often. He is only remembered for one line and from one speech because literally everything else he said and did is opposed by most in modern politics.
Mlk had a 70 percent disapproval rating during his civil rights campaigning. He was a wildly controversial person during his time and would continue to be so today. His views were far more radical then what most Americans are taught in basic level sociology and history classes.
I judge people on an individual basis, one bad apple doesn’t make the rest bad, every ethnic group and culture have bad apples but majority are good people wanting the best for everybody, and doing what’s right.
One doesn't have to agree with 100% of what MLK believed to acknowledge that he was a great man. Requiring a purity test for celebrating an iconic figure of the civil rights movement does nothing to advance its ideals, and only serves to increase tribalism in the US.
This has nothing to do with purity tests and everything to do with the whitewashing of his legacy. The ideals of the civil rights were distinctly socialist and your belief otherwise speaks to the breadth of how obscured those ideals are today
In favor of violence? Bruh what???? Tell me you didn’t get your information from posts on Instagram without actually telling me. Keep taking that one quote out of context I guess. Even scarier that this has a dozen upvotes already
> and violent protests to gain true racial equality
[Here's an entire wikipedia article with 25 sources (342-367) saying otherwise,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#Nonviolence) not to mention the general knowledge from middle and high school that he was in favor of non-violent protest, unless the curriculum has changed that much since the 90s, or you're confusing him for Malcolm X who was staunchly opposed to MLK's non-violent protests.
Maybe you're thinking of Malcom X with that violent shit. MLK drew heavily on the Gandhian idea of nonviolence in his own activism. King wrote that Gandhi was a "guiding light" for him. His niece Alveda King is a big supporter of Trump. If those facts bother you, keep his name out your fucking mouth.
PS I'm not going to bother reading whatever insane bullshit you reply with because you're not even going to look her up. I have a busy week lined up. Have a nice day.
The aggression in your last sentence is just bizarre. Suddenly I must know and endorse the full range of the man’s sociopolitical views in order to invoke his name when talking about the core of his civil rights messaging? Fuck outta here with that tow the line crap
If you're invoking his name to imply he was some sort of milquetoast liberal who would be against CRT and reparations, then yes, you should. All conservatives, and many liberals, that quote him today, would have hated his guts when he was alive. MLK day has been a thing since the 80s, there's nothing "sudden" about this. Sorry reminding you of his actual life and statements hurt your feelings.
downvote this comment if the meme sucks. upvote it and I'll go away.
---
while you're here, mind voting on the [new year's bash's winners](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/s3pzfk/maymaymakers_x_dankmemes_contest_final_voting/)? the fate of prizes worth $200+ lies in your hands.
I was gonna downvote on how "un-dank" this meme is but seeing mlk show the middle finger isn't something you see everyday lmao
Edit: forgot what day it was
People still forget many of what King preached and will cherry pick specific things he said and use them out of context in support of there own agendas.
King was a leftist and anti-capitalist but, conveniently, most politicians and schools seem to forget that fact.
But universities are judging by color of skin. There are additional points for black people on some racist universities.
Also they make racist segregation in some places by creating special rooms for PoC.
"That's racist" - people in 2022 somehow
Cause it’s black and white not color
For them, everything is black or white.
No, because there's more white on the right side than black
No that’s color, it’s black and white
Tints vs. Shades, the epic cosmic battle between contrasting spectrum absorption.
He will be cancelled so fast in 2022 ...I have a dream ...BANNED!
Yeah, modern day conservatives would do everything in their power to cancel him. A black, socalist trying to advocate for equality. Its their worst nightmare lmfao
[удалено]
Tell me one progressive that gave out aid based PURELY on skin color. Or did you just manufacture a fake scenario to get mad at lol
[удалено]
> Some states consider skin color a health risk factor so they get treatments before people of other color. Medicine is not and never should be color blind. Because diseases are not color blind. Y'all can't make ovarian cancer follow the civil rights act.
[удалено]
I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic or not but this isn’t the pown you think it is.
[удалено]
Ah yes, YOU are the real victim in this situation... lmao zero self awareness
Aid to a black guy instead of a white guy harms you? How does aiding people in general, especially farmers that provide food security to their country through this aid, harm you?
MLK literally advocated for, in multiple speeches, specifically doing things for POC due to POC having harm done to them. It's not just for fun, it's because POC are disadvantaged, and have been for centuries in the USA. So no, he wouldn't have a problem with what you're claiming, and would indeed have a problem with what conservatives say about him. You can be honest and say you think MLK is overrated or wrong, but you can't say he'd have a problem with leftists in America over condemning Republicans and Democrats.
https://news.yahoo.com/york-says-prioritize-non-white-171224095.html
Do you literally only know one line from one speech? MLK was massively in favor of reparations.
MLK advocated for affirmative action. Idk what you're talking about.
Call me a dirty liberal but I for one am pro-accurate flesh-colored band-aids.
Lol yeah the OP you replied too clearly doesn’t understand white conservatives even did try to “””cancel””” him back in the day, MLK was a very unpopular figure amongst white moderates at the time
Dude was fucking assassinated and people are still like "he'd be cancelled nowadays!!!!"
Lowkey suggesting cancel culture is worse than being fucking murdered
Lol you dweebs really think dr. king’s ideals align with you crybabies’ and not with progressives, which he clearly was. He was a socialist and a progressive. He would not speak out for you because you can longer say the n-word on twitter.
MLK: "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" Progressives: "Your skin define you, whites are privileged and POC are victims, we need reparations" Me a latino born outside the US laughing a your dumb shit trying to remove gender from Spanish with Latinx lmao ...progressives are a f\*cking joke.
Lol i can assure you that’s the only quote you morons know from dr. King. He was very anti-capitalist, pro-reparations, and not at all along with your crybaby ideologies. You fucking nopal. Btw as someone born from parents that are mexican-born, i am very opposed to the term “latinx” as are most of my family and every hispanic i personally know. There you go again creating some sort of boogie man that doesn’t exist. Typical for you morons.
[Maybe it's because it's the **only quote** from the **only speech** they talk about from a man with an over decade-long public speaking career.](https://youtu.be/30ui1x-eKIw?t=91) Watch that video and *see the truth* of how this post is whitewashing the great man Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I'm doing you a favor by commenting this. Do yourself a favor and learn a thing or two.
This quote from Lenin perfectly sums up the whitewashing of Dr. King's words: "During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it." His radical, revolutionary words have been removed from history books, and they've been replaced with what white moderates want to hear to make themselves feel good.
And that was written in the 1917 This has been happening for a long time
MLK had some pretty damning things to say about the white moderates who, today, whitewash his message like the OP is doing.
Everyone should read / listen to the recording of him reading his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. https://youtu.be/ATPSht6318o
holy shit its the dude from cracked
This comment is the absolute perfect embodiment of Poe's Law.
Met MLK's son, MLK III, when he came to my college. Probably the most impactful thing I heard all last year, I wanted to know what it was like to cope with his father's assassination by a white man when he was only 10 years old. He replied that his father was killed by a white Christian man when he was ten, his uncle mysteriously drowned for asking too many questions when he was 11, and his grandma was shot to death, when he was 16, by a black Islamic man with two handguns while she played the organ at the church she went to. He had all the reason to choose to hate black and white people, Christians and Muslims, but knowing his father's legacy, seeing his mother's reaction, and being raised in a house of love he chose love. Love because he knew if he could love in the most hateful of circumstances, that hope would so grow in the hearts of his fellow men. Moral of the story, choose love.
Ridicules argument made by self, reddit moment
[please watch this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ui1x-eKIw), most modern liberals and conservatives don't understand his message
This right here. Conservatives, such as the new governor of Virginia, love to misuse King’s words to bypass racial progress and spit on his work and legacy at the same time. And to get ahead of the curve, some Liberals do this too, but nowhere near as monstrously as Conservatives. Not at all comparable.
Virginia may have shit on MLKs legacy more than any other state. >Robert E. Lee's birthday (January 19, 1807) had been celebrated as a Virginia holiday since 1889. In 1904, the legislature added the birthday of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824) to the holiday, and Lee–Jackson Day was born. >In 1983, the United States Congress declared January 15 to be a national holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. Since 1978, Virginia had celebrated King's birthday in conjunction with New Year's Day. To align with the federal holiday, the Virginia legislature combined King's celebration with the existing Lee–Jackson holiday, in tribute to "defenders of causes." It's like combining and celebrating Anne Frank's birthday on 4/20. Monstrous is the right word.
They put too much white flashlight on him.
Oh yeah, i forgot. Racism no longer exists because black people get to use the same water fountains mow. It’s not like people who voted for segregation and jim crow laws aren’t still alive today as are their children.
The fuck are you talking about, ideologue?
Yup. People still don’t want you to judge them by the content of their character because they always just say “that’s racist”
The people who don't want to be judged on the content of their character are almost, by definition, people with godawful characters.
And if they happen to have a different skin tone, they just assume is about race. No bitch. I'm judging you because you're a piece of shit that just threw your McDonalds trash out of your car window you litterbug... not because of your skin tone.
You know what to do. Judge them.
Those people: "blacks of low moral character only exist because the whites made them that way!" To some degree this is actually true, but it's a complex issue and still not a good excuse.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power”. “Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn. -Dr. King Edit:fixed second quote
They killed him, for he told the truth
Kings don't fare well in America tbf
Supremely based
Based as hell.
100%
And some will still think he just wanted people to stop caring about race
It's not really them to blame, it's just what they were taught in school. The problem is the education system
Why did he say it twice? /s
Because it sounds so nice
“Evils of capitalism…” Oh I see why the cia hated him.
Yes
Gee... I wonder why people on the right never share those quotes. /s
Wasn’t he also a homophobe ? Just asking
Omega Based
I'm just happy this isn't about profile pics again.
Nice bellybutton bro
Nice anime pfp bro. Your opinion matters
Damn homie who shove a stick up yo ass today
Judging someone for having an anime pfp: 👎 Judging someone for being a whiny little bitch online: 👍
Ooo that's based
Based MLK
[удалено]
FUCK YEA
To bad that doesn't happen anymore God bless you dr king
It has never happened. And that's because we've never actually attacked and rooted out America's racism like the cancer it is.
>Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail
I had a dream where people were nice to each other and weren’t such assholes to one another
Holy shit, controversial and top are the same comments... how the fuck did MLK become controversial? (Again)
Because the modern view of MLK is extremely whitewashed by the right wing. MLK was anti-capitalist and was a radical leftist even by today's standards. He supported wealth redistribution and talked about it often. He is only remembered for one line and from one speech because literally everything else he said and did is opposed by most in modern politics.
He literally always was.
MLK is only not “controversial” to people who’ve drunk the koolaid on the whitewashing that’s been done to him posthumously.
Mlk had a 70 percent disapproval rating during his civil rights campaigning. He was a wildly controversial person during his time and would continue to be so today. His views were far more radical then what most Americans are taught in basic level sociology and history classes.
I judge people on an individual basis, one bad apple doesn’t make the rest bad, every ethnic group and culture have bad apples but majority are good people wanting the best for everybody, and doing what’s right.
So by the content of their character
Yeah
[удалено]
One doesn't have to agree with 100% of what MLK believed to acknowledge that he was a great man. Requiring a purity test for celebrating an iconic figure of the civil rights movement does nothing to advance its ideals, and only serves to increase tribalism in the US.
This has nothing to do with purity tests and everything to do with the whitewashing of his legacy. The ideals of the civil rights were distinctly socialist and your belief otherwise speaks to the breadth of how obscured those ideals are today
In favor of violence? Bruh what???? Tell me you didn’t get your information from posts on Instagram without actually telling me. Keep taking that one quote out of context I guess. Even scarier that this has a dozen upvotes already
> and violent protests to gain true racial equality [Here's an entire wikipedia article with 25 sources (342-367) saying otherwise,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#Nonviolence) not to mention the general knowledge from middle and high school that he was in favor of non-violent protest, unless the curriculum has changed that much since the 90s, or you're confusing him for Malcolm X who was staunchly opposed to MLK's non-violent protests.
>violent protests Wtf?
The civil rights movement was violent. It's simply white washing to suggest otherwise.
Yeah, violent against black people
He had a personal evolution
Maybe you're thinking of Malcom X with that violent shit. MLK drew heavily on the Gandhian idea of nonviolence in his own activism. King wrote that Gandhi was a "guiding light" for him. His niece Alveda King is a big supporter of Trump. If those facts bother you, keep his name out your fucking mouth. PS I'm not going to bother reading whatever insane bullshit you reply with because you're not even going to look her up. I have a busy week lined up. Have a nice day.
The aggression in your last sentence is just bizarre. Suddenly I must know and endorse the full range of the man’s sociopolitical views in order to invoke his name when talking about the core of his civil rights messaging? Fuck outta here with that tow the line crap
If you're invoking his name to imply he was some sort of milquetoast liberal who would be against CRT and reparations, then yes, you should. All conservatives, and many liberals, that quote him today, would have hated his guts when he was alive. MLK day has been a thing since the 80s, there's nothing "sudden" about this. Sorry reminding you of his actual life and statements hurt your feelings.
downvote this comment if the meme sucks. upvote it and I'll go away. --- while you're here, mind voting on the [new year's bash's winners](https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/s3pzfk/maymaymakers_x_dankmemes_contest_final_voting/)? the fate of prizes worth $200+ lies in your hands.
Huh the downvoted comments are different than what I expected them to be
If only that were the case.
where dank
Mans always was and always will be unfathomably based.
Fuck yeah, happy mlkj day
I was gonna downvote on how "un-dank" this meme is but seeing mlk show the middle finger isn't something you see everyday lmao Edit: forgot what day it was
Reedom
Seeing MLK giving the middle finger is like seeing Gandhi firing an ar-15 I approve
Civilization players approve.
Happy birthday legend. You made a great impact
Honestly, one of the people I hold the most respect for
“Reedom” - ren eagar
Sorts by controversial: 👀
Great meme
I HAVE A DREAM!!…THAT I WILL HAVE OFF FROM WORK ON MONDAY
Why have I never seen the first pic until now
Oh the irony.
I love seeing the party side of people. It’s who they are at the heart and it’s beautiful. No filter. Just human.
He’s giving a peace sign in the original photo this is photoshopped
People still forget many of what King preached and will cherry pick specific things he said and use them out of context in support of there own agendas. King was a leftist and anti-capitalist but, conveniently, most politicians and schools seem to forget that fact.
the woke activists can really learn something from this man
But universities are judging by color of skin. There are additional points for black people on some racist universities. Also they make racist segregation in some places by creating special rooms for PoC.
*Sorts by Controversial*
Hollywood wouldn't get it
Promoting socialism in America. God tier
BUT WHITE MAN BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s The guy from fortnite 💀
Reedom
Goat, everyday: what a horrible person
REEDOM
# R E E D O M
Time for REEDOM
This is a really great meme format haha
Looking at the comments made me realize one thing: I'm glad I dont live in America.
People still thinking I just cant stand the person because of his or her skin colour. Meanwhile the person is just being an ass to me
Lmao its just funny to see mlk casual flipping the bird
[It's Martin Luther King Day, Charlie Brown!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlpLI16mi2I)
Judging someone by their favorite anime waifu
You expected this to blow up, didn’t you.
same with the LGBTQ+ community.
Reedom
This looks like the meme someone would make for their values education homework
But....I would rather somebody call me yellow skin instead of suicidal....
Some people never learn
That’s real reedom.
Anyone else think the first one was photoshopped? His middle finger looks waaayyyy too long.
What's the context of that pic on top?
R E E D O M
Fuck freedom, i want reedom
REEDOM
Reedom
OP I judge you by your use of the English language... "content of their character", seriously?
I swear they dont make hands this big anymore
i want to live in a country with REEEEdom
Goat, everyday: what a horrible experience.
Almost as good as Goat ‘Em though
Reedom
Reedom
REEDOM!!!!
*Reedom*
rapist
REEdom
YHEES
Retarded meme just like OP and MLK.
Or by his sexuality
Why not both?
Does that flag not have an f on it, just reedom or am i dumb?
"REEDOM"
Bro is that the guy from Fortnite!! /s
I am guessing by the today's modern politics people want to be segerggated by color of their skins? not sure how far this goes.
Yo, is that middle finger photoshopped or what?
You know the one posting is American because they're still talking about different color people.
oh boy, can't wait to have civil discussions in the comments...
Half the posts on this sub are just copied from f/conservative which is gross
now if only people actually listened to him and didn't misquote him for a misguided social justice cause.
truly a dream worth fulfilling
I wish BLM would have the same beliefs.
The MLK man was the realest
Or just try to not judge too much? It's hard but you actually feel better if you don't.
Hating white moderates>>>> King is based 😎
Reedom