The obelisk at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Tree Grove is seen at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on January 17, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” is the one line many white Americans can recite from a Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. speech.
Some conveniently weaponize these words. For instance, in a session last year about racism in her workplace, one white professional relied on this quote as she attempted to convince her colleagues and me that the Black Lives Matter movement is racist. King would’ve wanted us to recognize that all lives matter, regardless of color, she asserted.