Here are some of my favorite stories about Martin Luther King Jr. that you won't hear today from people who wanted to paint him as this adorable teddy bear and not the radical that he was.
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Instead of $740 billion to the military, we could’ve lowered it to:
$739B + free laptops & internet for every poor student,
$737B + 3 social workers in every police dept. in America,
$735B and free college for 240,731 ppl
Or, at least stop saying it’s for “National Security”
On this day, 217 years ago, Napoleon’s French forces, Great Britain, Polish mercenaries, the Swiss Army & the Spanish Empire, all got their asses kicked AT THE SAME TIME by Black warriors in the most successful slave rebellion in the history of the world.
Happy Birthday Haiti