Every year around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day, I get annoyed. I love that we celebrate the life and work of Dr. King, but I hate that his image is reduced into something that it wasn’t. He becomes cuddly Dr. King, a representative for peace and love that never made any white person uncomfortable. America was racist, Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and racism was over. That kind of childish view is why a documentary like Sam Pollard’s new documentary MLK/FBI is so essential. It shows King as a political actor working …
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