King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claims to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her. “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.”
This is the reality that Mitt Romney and too many of his GOP cohorts are trying to return the US to.
This is the reality that quite a few white people who call themselves feminists and/or progressives revert and refer to when they want to speak/behave in racist ways, be it defending racism or speaking/doing it themselves.
This.
Just something to contemplate on this MLK Day weekend.
(via karnythia)
