My Brother's Keeper: MLK Jr., Trump, Twitter

Stephen Snyder (PRI's The World, Jan. 15, 2018); Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Haitian American artist's image of MLK hushing Trump goes viral

You don't shush me, Marty! You black...!!

"My Brother's Keeper," an image that first went viral during the women's march following Pres. Trump's inauguration, has become popular again one year later.

Paging through social media on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018? Catch a glimpse of an image that's getting a lot of shares? The one that shows Dr. King trying to hush a tweeting Donny Trump.
 

I had a dream this idiot would stop.

"Basically the picture is an image of Martin Luther King," says Haitian-American artist Watson Mere (@artofmere).

"He's extending his hand out to cover the mouth of our current president while he's tweeting away."

 

Watson Mere's picture wasn't originally intended to be political. The artist had been developing an image to honor King's birthday in 2017. More + AUDIO

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