Words from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech about a colorblind nation are repeated every MLK Day. But civil rights advocates say the now-frequent cherry-picking of quotes distorts his views and masks today's systemic racism.
, now House Speaker, tweeted in 2021: "Critical Race Theory goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught us."
"It's dishonoring of the memory of King not to raise that full critique, no matter how unnerving, unsettling or uncomfortable it is."
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