"MLK Jr. KILLED BY SNIPER!!!"
Heres the most absurd moment of this week.. possibly the month. I'm in class today and a couple of people are giving final presentations. This one guy goes up to the podium with this mysterious box, which he says will be revealed later, and gives a speech on the Civil Rights Movement. He then opens up the box to reveal a vintage actual copy of the NY Daily News the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. It shows a picture of his face and reads, "MLK JR. KILLED BY SNIPER!" So now here is where it gets unintentionally funny. He then says that he wants to get a class photo with all of us posing with the paper. So the whole class gathers around and the teacher holds up the paper with a huge smile like Truman after winning the war. We all stand around with smiles from ear to ear and thumbs way the fuck up. No one thinks nothing of it until one guy says, "I felt a little uncomfortable posing with that paper." Then it dawned on me we took part in one of the most unintentional racist photos ever. I imagine many a Klu Klux Klan member posed for the exact same photo the day after the assasination. Thank god the majority of the class is black, or it would be really bad.
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