January 20, 2015
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And you know that stuff about people being judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin? Well, ain”t nobody got time for that at the Crystal Palace Nightclub in Chicago: Ladies, enter to win $50 in their “Dark Skin vs. Light Skin” contest.
Last year, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter Bernice was “appalled“ when shown a selection of these flyers, one of which depicted “Rev. King wearing a large gold chain, making [gang sign] hand gestures under the headline “Freedom 2 Twerk.””
And sure enough, I had trouble tracking down examples designed for this year. Within the “black community,” the debate surrounding these flyers, and the parties themselves, goes on.
One blogger condemns all this “foolishment”:
I need us to stop having MLK-themed parties around his birthday. His dream was not for y”all to have “Drop it like it’s hot” Sunday in your raggelly club in his name! How does this honor his legacy? I know he wasn”t a saint (he was far from it) but Martin is prolly hitting his dougie in his grave.
But a Buzzfeed writer shoots back:
Sure, Martin Luther King Jr. didn”t explicitly say he had a dream that one day your cousin Mooney could get crunk in any establishment regardless of color in his famous speech, but that’s still a part of being free. (…) Why not put on those red bottoms you worked so hard to get and drop it low in the name of progress?
