Hajar Yazdiha
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Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Uses of King’s words, especially by right-wing conservatives, are too often attempts to weaponize his memory against the multicultural democracy of which King could only dream.