15 June Selena on Instagram: Message from @mspackyetti

@selenagomez: Message from @mspackyetti

Every time protest breaks out in this country, we hear people misquote and misrepresent our country’s most famous civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These false stories are meant to keep people in order-even though Dr. King didn’t care about order, he cared about justice. If we look deeper-at his writings, his sermons, and his work, we see someone who can teach us a lot in this moment. He teaches us about the importance of protest and the courage it takes to confront the status quo.⠀
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I made this video with @MicNews and @KendallCiesemier a few years ago, but the lessons still ring true. Let’s #ReclaimMLK so his work can’t be used against this movement that is transforming the world for all of us.⠀
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And let’s expand our set of heroes-including women, queer folks and more- so we can learn the lessons we all need to change our behaviors and impact change right now. Take a look in stories to maybe learn some new names, read some new words, and watch some biographies that can have us each standing up to be most powerful selves in the here and now. Movements move because people move them. Let’s bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice. ⠀
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— Brittany Packnett Cunningham (@mspackyetti)