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“ In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. ”

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If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

Timothy B. Tyson Reconciliation Truth

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

Timothy B. Tyson Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr Truth

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

Timothy B. Tyson Flaws God

It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.

~ Timothy B. Tyson

Timothy B. Tyson Change Community