And she had some nerve, Daughter, both the people AND the place were racist as HAYELL!! I was there:

https://lets-be-clear.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-journey-to-jena-and-specter-of.html

https://lets-be-clear.blogspot.com/2007/09/sunni-patterson-we-made-it_7935.html

And you're absolutely right about the weaponization of Dr. King's words. They cherrypick what they want to use against us, all while leaving all the other shit he said about their systemic, racist ways of being.