Why I’m blacker than Dr King

I AM OFTEN COMPARED TO ROSA PARKS. This is unsurprising, given that I have worked assiduously and selflessly throughout my life in the pursuit of equity and inclusion. The only difference is that I wouldn’t be seen dead on public transport. But I think the time has come to reassess the legacy of Rosa Parks. In many ways, Parks was deeply problematic. Why, for instance, did she insist on sitting in the white section of the bus? She was clearly a self-hating racist. Again and again, I find that so many of the heroes of the civil rights movements fail to live up to my standards. Consider Martin Luther King and his famous “dream” that future generations would be judged not “by the colour of their skin but by the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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