The Irony of MLK Jr. Day

Justin Patton
4 min readJan 22, 2019

It wasn’t until he died that he became one of the good guys in America’s eyes.

Photo cred: Time Magazine

The Man, The Myth, The Legend…The Irony

To my understanding most people are aware of the impact Martin Luther King Jr. had on the world. As the face of the Civil Right Movement, MLK held up a mirror to the face of America for the world to see it’s hatred for black people. He challenged…

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Justin Patton

Spoken word artist and writer. Living my life and writing about it along the way, it just might inspire somebody. IG: @iamjustinpatton