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Excited to see some billionaires and corporations post their best MLK quotes today. Send me your favorites!

 Bezos’ personal fortune has increased by more than $75 billion since the pandemic started. Amazon Music pays these artists they’re celebrating $0.00402 per stream.
https://t.co/rpRG3UKNIm
From the racist idiots who blacklisted Colin Kaepernick for speaking out on exactly what this quote says.
https://t.co/3n3sxHvckE
https://t.co/SroctQLtZ5
Biggest stakeholder, Charles Johnson, donated the maximum allowable amount to the campaigns of three United States senators and at least 20 members of the House who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
https://t.co/Y9Lkkf2kkO
Anything that keeps them from actually having to put a supermarket in a Black neighborhood.
https://t.co/NztujzPYOn
Lord. I can’t fucking even. https://t.co/1StGTreZCB
You’re gonna want a drink in hand for the next one. I guarantee.
I can’t fucking even.
https://t.co/WcH2eGNpE7
Wonder why the cops when with this quote? https://t.co/iTTVl6iBtv
Nope.
https://t.co/q7r3W6x1f7
Those Pfizer colleagues don’t include a single Black person in executive leadership.
https://t.co/pcjFZvxwew
Let’s take a music break. (Sponsored by HP, of course.) https://t.co/UO02HA64d6
We made MLK’s monument big so immigrant children could hide behind it when these asshole came round: https://t.co/c7p05gI5A1
This motherfucker LITERALLY attempted to throw away Black people’s votes just a week ago.
https://t.co/rgCxRGLKt4
“It’s quite fun to shoot them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people.” — James Mattis, former Secretary of Defense
https://t.co/uf5P2gDg8m
Just don’t try to use that GI Bill to get a mortgage or anything. https://t.co/dIpbNvZiJR
https://t.co/N6Q0B6jAv0
Not too long ago she was firing up some racists by telling them “Hitler was right.” https://t.co/fWCQAD74UJ https://t.co/rOJ5bhL1Y0
Tastes like hatred.
https://t.co/FykOc9A0GJ
No one has done more for Blacks and Africans than Bono. And he’ll be the first to tell you that. https://t.co/a9xLCNTrxv
I’m guessing the FBI is busy this year what with chasing down all those racists the cops let into the Capitol (day is young though!) but just in case they don’t come round, here is last year’s EXCELLENT FBI MLK tweet: https://t.co/NYeYapgxR0
Here’s a chaser: https://t.co/FNiR9bCKRm
https://t.co/gMFgSpm4eg
Here’s one immigrant I don’t mind is getting evicted next week.
https://t.co/VgW9kPMRSc
They play FOX News in the lobby and their CEO refuses to say that Black lives matter: https://t.co/nIzKRGKy5I

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