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#MLK’s Story Behind “I Have a Dream”
#MartinLutherKing Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, like much of MLK’s legacy, is selectively remembered.
“Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a #dream,’” Wyatt Tee Walker told him. “It’s trite, it’s cliché. You’ve used it too many times already.”
“So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”
“Aw shit,” said Wyatt Walker, who was on the Mall. “He’s using the dream.”
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-vietnam
#MartinLutherKing Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, like much of MLK’s legacy, is selectively remembered.
“Don’t use the lines about ‘I have a #dream,’” Wyatt Tee Walker told him. “It’s trite, it’s cliché. You’ve used it too many times already.”
“So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”
“Aw shit,” said Wyatt Walker, who was on the Mall. “He’s using the dream.”
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-vietnam