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Stop Weaponizing Dr. King Against Black Lives Matter Protestors

Omid Safi
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7 min readJun 10, 2020

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Martin Luther King, Jr. after being struck on the head by a rock thrown during a march against housing discrimination in Chicago, 1966. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

Let us not be guilty of whitewashing King in these difficult days.

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Omid Safi
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Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. Radical Love. Rumi, Sufism, Martin & Malcolm. Teaches online courses: https://www.illuminatedcourses.com/

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