J. Pharoah Doss: Misusing MLK moral authority

 Over the last decade, numerous riots have erupted in response to fatal encounters between unarmed Black individuals and police officers. Martin Luther King Jr. famously stated, “A riot is the language of the unheard,” but the activists who condoned the violence used this phrase to cloak themselves in MLK’s moral authority in order to silence others who denounced the riots.
MLK’s comment described how, when the oppressed felt systemically neglected by the authorities