It's another #MLKday, and right wing politicians are out in droves reducing the man's message to one misrepresented sentence. They spent 50 years diluting and whitewashing his memory until they finally had someone they could pretend to admire.

So they continue trying to prevent black people from voting, passing laws to prevent teachers from teaching about racism, Jim Crow, or the civil rights movement, and supporting racist policing.

"It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of white Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle -- the disease of racism permeates and poisons the body politic." on 03/31/1968, four days before he was assassinated.

I'd like to think that this has changed, but I'm not blind. I think any social or systemic changes have been largely superficial, with the addition of talking points to make them appear to be more than they are. The denial among those not afflicted has only deepened.