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What would MLK Jr. do?
James McCarty, a theologian, ethicist and professor of conflict transformation at Boston University who has written about and researched King extensively, said lessons about the civil rights hero and his era have been sanitized for years.
But the growing boldness of efforts to whitewash lessons is something McCarty said he hasn’t seen before. Certain people are seeking to remove everything that may cause discomfort, he said, yet “a good educational practice is to make people uncomfortable.”