Tom Hanks as Martin Luther King Jr.

Mom Today 1:07 PM NETFLIX ORIGINAL MLK TOM HANKS How do you feel about this? Is he playing Martin I guess Read 1:11 PM I am more concerned with how the black community is going to feel about this

A fake Netflix poster shows Tom Hanks portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in a movie titled “MLK,” shared in a text conversation with Mom. The joke is that casting a white actor as Martin Luther King Jr. would be deeply offensive and alarming to the Black community, while the sender’s mother seems focused on whether he is actually playing Martin. The meme is used as an absurd reaction to insensitive or outrageously misguided casting. EN: A fake Netflix poster shows Tom Hanks portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in a movie titled “MLK,” shared in a text conversation with Mom. The joke is that casting a white actor as Martin Luther King Jr. would be deeply offensive and alarming to the Black community, while the sender’s mother seems focused on whether he is actually playing Martin. The meme is used as an absurd reaction to insensitive or outrageously misguided casting.

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