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Choose the march MLK would join
This shouldn’t be hard.
Your choices are, from top left to right, the scene in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, as the largely peaceful rally in support of President Donald Trump outside the White House turned into a march along Pennsylvania Avenue; a Transgender Rights March in June 2020 that drew 15-thousand people to Brooklyn; and the historic day in August 1963 that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at the March on Washington. The bottom photo shows the view from the other end of the Washington Mall, as the mob of rioters and insurrectionists reached, breached and stormed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, to stop Congress from confirming Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
What about this march? Could you imagine the man who spoke so eloquently of his dream standing in this sea of pink hats?
This was taken January 21, 2017: The Women’s March to protest Trump, the day after the president’s inauguration.
I share these pictures as a self-awareness quiz on this holiday celebrating the birth of MLK, Jr.:
Imagine you are in a large crowd, surrounded by thousands. Can you imagine MLK marching by your…