As a Twitter search for "content character MLK" reveals, many conservatives in the United States spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day quoting Dr. King's 1963 March on Washington speech: “People should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But Dr. King actually said something more specific: “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.” That is, he dreamed that his children – and by extension Black people – would no longer be subject to racism in America. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 January 2022)
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