"It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his bootstraps.

And many Negroes, by the thousands and millions, have been left bootless … as the result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma…” https://t.co/ycN2yl4qhP #MLK90 pic.twitter.com/5UdSwofqfn

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 16, 2019