A newly discovered diary shares that, in addition to having a dream his children wouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also had a second inspiring dream where he had jetpacks for feet.
“I dreamt I was walking around my neighborhood and saw children of every nationality playing together in the street,” the diary reads. “As I walked, my feet started to lift off the ground and when I looked down, boom: jetpack feet. My feet lifted me in the air like I was on eagles’ wings. I had a beautiful view of my city living in harmony. I could hear children singing. And then Sammy Davis Jr. kept yelling from the ground to borrow them as if anyone would ever give up jetpacks for feet. Man, what was THAT about?!”
Megan Greene, Curator of the National Civil Rights Museum, said historians are really excited to learn more about what MLK’s second dream’s symbolism meant.
“It seems he realized he could use his jetpack feet to get revenge on his enemies and went crashing into the front window of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s house—I mean, from the diary, it sounds like he didn’t even try to slow down,” said Greene, flipping through the pages. “After he takes out Hoover’s house, he describes playing a seemingly friendly game of basketball with some of his adversaries, but then he uses his jetpack feet to blast off and dunk on Richard Nixon from the half-court line.”
Greene said it may take some time to fully decode MLK’s second dream detailed in the diary.
“Although Dr. King famously said, ‘Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,’ it seems that in MLK’s second dream he is not only drinking from the cup, but pouring it over his head like a Gatorade shower,” Greene said. “At this point, we can only assume what MLK was trying to not tell us.”
