6 People who should definitely keep MLK’s name out their mouth

Some folks just don't get it.

Civil rights icon Martin Luther King in 1964. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Some folks just don’t get it.

We don’t want to hear the words “Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.” come out of these habitual line steppers ever.

Ben Carson

Where do we even start with Dr. Carson and his lies? Someone tell the Trump apologist that Dr. King was not in Memphis telling sanitation workers that their poverty was simply a “state of mind.” And no, Ben, Obamacare is not the worst thing to happen to America since slavery. And no, Ben, enslaved Africans did not come to America the same way as other immigrants.

No, no, no. Just no.

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All Lives Matter Apologists

No, Dr. King would not have supported your little movement. The ‘judge by content, not by color,’ portion of his speech was no an endorsement of the ‘colorblind America’ you envision. Dr. King didn’t want you and yours judging Black kids negatively simply because they’re Black. That’s a hell of a lot different than your interpretation that he meant “color doesn’t matter.”

Try again.

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Paul Ryan

Here’s a photo of Speaker Ryan stopping to reflect in front of a bust of Dr. King. What is he reflecting on exactly? Here are some suggestions: Tolerating and enabling a racist president, having poor and middle class folks pay for corporate tax cuts and how he thinks men living in the inner city don’t have the “desire” to work.

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Fox News

The only King Fox News honors is Alveda. The network makes it a point to trot out MLK’s Trump-loving niece each time January rolls around. The race-baiting, ignorance-rewarding news network purposely and dangerously manipulates Dr. King’s legacy to fit their conservative agenda.

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Donald Trump

There’s almost nothing that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth that should be taken seriously – let alone anything he has to say about Dr. King. This is the same guy who said people are starting to learn “more and more” about Frederick Douglass. Does he know Dr. King was assassinated on American soil? Who knows.

The fact that Trump honored Dr. King’s holiday with a cringeworthy-proclamation just days after the “shithole” controversy tells you all you need to know.

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Donald Trump Jr.

Like father, like son. The second coming of Trumpy celebrated Dr. King’s national holiday by shouting out the family’s favorite Trump supporter. Thanks Alveda King for making the first family feel good about their slow destruction of human decency and progress.

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