Conway ended the comment on a personal note: “I appreciate the fact that we as a nation respect him by giving him his own day, and I’m happy to share a birthday with this day'
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Every year, Americans come together to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by misinterpreting the legacy of the civil rights icon. In 2020, the trend has been prolific, from far-right protestors in Virginia comparing gun control to the oppression of Jim Crow, to the FBI’s fond remembrance of the leader on Twitter — despite the agency’s constant surveillance of King, and its 1964 letter urging the “evil” and “colossal fraud” to kill himself.
Well, I can tell you the president is preparing for Davos and agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, and agreed with for many years — including unity and equality, and he’s not the one trying to tear the country apart through an impeachment process and a lack of substance that really is very shameful at this point. I’ve held my opinion on it for a very long time, but when you see the articles of impeachment that came out, I don’t think it was Dr.
It’s even more unlikely considering that the young Trump was in direct opposition to one of MLK’s most urgent concerns. As housing discrimination allowed for legal segregation and economic subjugation in America’s cities, King fought for fair housing rights as a co-leader of the Chicago Freedom Movement, a group that ended discriminatory lending in the city and helped bring about the Fair Housing Act, passed a week after MLK’s death in 1968.
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