Fourth Wall Who? (January 22, 2019)
The Daily Life of Seokjin“Hello, Seokjin here with a special message. As of this moment the previous vlog will be taken down. Why? Because people decided to call the lovely author disrespectful for her portrayal of the late Martin Luther King Jr. See, dear author grew up in a community where the only importance Martin Luther King Jr. Day held was ‘yippee, no school today!’ She didn’t learn any substantial information about the man until she was in middle school, as in elementary school all they ever did to learn about him was color a picture of him. And even in middle school and high school, the only time she learned information beyond the basics that everyone knows, such as the famous I Have A Dream speech and the fact that he was wrongfully arrested on many occasions for peaceful protests, was when she did her own research for a project. And if you think that’s sad, there are other communities surrounding hers that don’t even acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr. Day at all because they don’t believe he’s important enough. So dear author, being unable to properly celebrate him the way he deserved decided to honor him herself by translating all his effort and work into this universe she created so that she could recognize him during the day the government set aside to celebrate him. But people, rather than understanding that she wanted to honor his memory assumed that she was disregarding his work and downplaying the importance of it. That hurt the author’s feelings very much that people would belie
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