Stop Weaponizing Dr. King Against Black Lives Matter Protestors

Many critiques of the protests fundamentally misunderstand — or worse, misrepresent — what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for

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

It seems like every time we as a nation come close to having real, radical, and structural transformation that is being led by people of color, the…