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From: The Root
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To commemorate the month of February and its celebration of Black History, Michael Eric Dyson (author, professor, and ordained minister) reflects on how the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. changed Dyson’s perspective on racial injustice.
Dyson’s lesson learned from MLK’s assassination is best summarized as he states,
“…his death, which gave rise to so much in the aftermath, his blood mixed in the soil from it sprouted an entire new awareness and consciousness that led from his assassination to 40 years later to the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDeMevOwB7s&feature=youtu.be
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