"The thinking has been that an abridged version was a way to honor King's legacy." It explained that the paper often recycles editorials on holidays when readership tends to be low and that the entirety of King's speech is simply too long to print in full. That was not the case this year," the editorial board said on Tuesday.Īfter some introspection, and a conversation with an unnamed Portland city council member who expressed their own dismay, the board said it has seen the error of its ways.
Typically, this abridged version of one of the great pieces of American oratory, King's 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech, receives little fanfare. "For years, we have published the same editorial on Martin Luther King Jr. While some readers condemned the paper for omitting the parts of the speech that explicitly address the links between systemic racism and poverty, this is the first year the paper says it has been the target of such impassioned anger. The Bangor Daily News editorial board has run the edited speech on and off since 2011.
On Monday, his daughter Bernice King said, "My father's 'dream' wasn't palpable to the white masses, including politicians."Ī Maine newspaper has apologized for publishing a heavily redacted version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I Have a Dream" speech on Sunday, after a deluge of backlash from readers, on social media, and even a cable news show host criticized the paper for whitewashing the Black civil rights leader's legacy on what would have been his 94th birthday. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug.
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