I get the outrage over flyers that use King’s image to get people into the club. But that anger is misplaced.

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Around a week before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the internet inevitably becomes inundated with flyers advertising local freedom-themed turn-up functions, pulled from sites with lecturing names like Hot Ghetto Mess, No Way Girl, and Get Your People. The response is also predictable: We tweet and retweet and like and reblog and shake our heads and suck our teeth and say things that our parents and grandparents have no doubt said at some point in their lives. Martin Luther King didn't die for this. He's probably turning over in his grave. All these kids running around with the nerve to be in the club poppin' it and droppin' it and doing it for the Vine on the King's day!

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