Alabama lawmaker equates Martin Luther King to Confederate general

Mike Holmes

Rep. Mike Holmes

This is an opinion cartoon.

Tweet by @Josh_Moon: Here’s the recording of REP. MIKE HOLMES saying, in response to a Black lawmaker’s comment that Black kids don’t want to go to a school named after a Confederate general, that “maybe these other people don’t want to go to Martin Luther King school.”

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