Anti-gay-marriage activism appropriated King’s legacy as conservative validation

Evidence

In 2004, Long led a march to the tomb of Dr. King in protest of gay marriage and Bernice King lit a torch from the eternal flame of her father’s burial site, passing it to Long as a kind of symbolic coronation. The irony wasn’t lost on many who observed the spectacle: a march against same-sex marriage occasioned a moment to disremember Dr. King, with his daughter profoundly complicit in it all. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic scholarship in the reader’s library about sex and identity politics serving class and political signaling. — connects to: Martin Luther King’s legacy was invoked to justify opposing affirmative action — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2197; Conservatives reframed King’s dream to erase group history and race talk — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 301; Conservatives weaponized King’s death to bury his radical vision — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 298 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Martin Luther King’s legacy was invoked to justify opposing affirmative action — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2197; Conservatives reframed King’s dream to erase group history and race talk — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 301; Conservatives weaponized King’s death to bury his radical vision — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 298 (+4 more)