Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter Bernice King has been trying to remind people how and what peaceful protest actually is in the wake of our white supremacist-in-chief’s insistence that professional athletes who kneel during the National Anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice should be fired. In a series of tweets over this past weekend, Bernice King created a very easy to understand course curriculum on why people are protesting, why it was an essential and lawful pursuit, and how problematic our current administration’s position on dissent is.
From that starting point, Ms. King just released a steady, peaceful current of truth.
There is no clearer example of the right and wrong side of history than Martin Luther King’s peaceful protests and the people that opposed them. Today is no different.