Claudia Rankine - If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that a...

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If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Claudia Rankine

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Wenn die Bürgerrechtsbewegung von Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Forderungen stellte, die den Lauf des amerikanischen Lebens veränderten, und diese Forderungen mit der Bereitschaft bekräftigt, Ihr Leben im Dienste Ihrer Bürgerrechte mit Black Lives Matter aufzugeben, eine weitere Verinnerlichte Veränderung wird gefragt: Anerkennung.

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