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The 5 Best Ways to Celebrate MLK Day, Ranked
All hail the King!
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5. Enjoy all of the classic party flyers
Every Martin Luther King Jr. Day there emerges a new set of heavily photoshopped flyers that depict the icon with all of the D-boy essentials: a thick wad of cash, gaudy jewelry, strippers, bottles of Hennessy. It’s damn near a Black institution. Go ahead and celebrate by basking in their stupidity, and then daydreaming about the civil rights leader’s iconic march on Compound.
4. Share an MLK quote that makes White people uncomfortable
Your White friends love to post “Kumbaya” King quotes about peace, unity, and faith in America. But they don’t know the real MLK was a whole revolutionary. So share one of his spicier quotables. Here’s a start: “Why does White America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?” But don’t attribute it to him. Drop that tidbit after they get angry and call you racist. It’s beautiful poetry.
