EUGENE, Ore. – Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream “that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
The famous quote from his Aug. 28, 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech is apparently not “inclusive” enough for some University of Oregon students who believe a quote that touches on gender equality is in order for modern times, reports The Daily Emerald, the student newspaper.
Laurie Woodward, student union director, told the Emerald that as the school’s renovation of Erb Memorial Union, where the quote from King has greeted students in the entrance since 1986, prompted some students pose a question to the Student Union Board: “Does the MLK quote represent us today?”
“Diversity is so much more than race,” sophomore Mia Ashley said.
“Obviously race still plays a big role.
But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that.”
Woodward told the site she doesn’t believe the student union is up to the task of searching out a new quote – an undertaking that would involved soliciting feedback from students – so King’s quote will likely go back in the building, for now.
“The quote is not going to change,” The Daily Emerald reports, “but that decision was not made without some hard thought by the Student Union Board.”
...“Had to think about it?
That being judged by your character and not your skin color isn’t ‘diverse’ enough?” Ted Hales commented.
“Idiots, all of them. Social Justice Warriors are moral retards.”
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