The Cookout

[Finesse]

Yes, you read that right. This was supposedly a team-up with the estate of MLK and Epic Games. So it wasn't some random thing Epic Games did, MLK's family agreed to it. What it is, is a lobby gamers in Fortnite can join. You can't shoot or do much of anything, but I am hearing you can still emote, so you can do dance moves and all that. Kind of distasteful if you can emote during it.

Here's more info on it with a preview of what you can see and do:

I think it's a cool way to educate children, and people who may have forgotten what MLK was about. If it helps kids learn, I'm all for it. I'm glad they didn't release MLK as a playable character, because I think that would be extremely messed up.

What do you guys think of this? Do you find it kind of weird? Or do you think it's a cool way to educate children about MLK?

 

[eclipsed]

What the hell is this?

This doesn't sit right with me at all. It is almost like they are making a mockery of the man and everything he did. I remember not too long ago, people on Twitter were saying MLK was wrong and racist because he told people to just others by the context of their character and not their skin color. This world is messed up man. It is just getting worse.

I feel like we need to start saving and documenting everything in history before these Marxist lunatics destroy it all.

 

[Invincible1914]

I saw that... putting the speech of a man who preached non-violence and was assassinated by gunshot in a shooting game is so tone deaf that there was no point in getting upset over it. It's clearly the work of naïve ignorance.

 

[Jay]

I would have given them props if they were playing this speech in the game. ”We’re coming to get our check”

 

[Nesut]

What the hell is this?

This doesn't sit right with me at all. It is almost like they are making a mockery of the man and everything he did. I remember not too long ago, people on Twitter were saying MLK was wrong and racist because he told people to just others by the context of their character and not their skin color. This world is messed up man. It is just getting worse.

I feel like we need to start saving and documenting everything in history before these Marxist lunatics destroy it all.

I’m with you. It’s the typical liberal nonsense where they value signal but never propose anything that changes the status quo.

 

[Real One]

It's so damn weird, but I kinda understand what they were going for here. Still a bit weird to put it in a game where the point is to shoot and kill enemies. I know you can't do it during this, but the fact that players can emote and do dumb things, makes it feel really distasteful to me.

I could see them instead doing a mode where it just shows clips from MLKs history. Without having it in a lobby where people can move about. I think that would be fine.

 

[Troy]

I saw that... putting the speech of a man who preached non-violence and was assassinated by gunshot in a shooting game is so tone deaf that there was no point in getting upset over it. It's clearly the work of naïve ignorance.

shiiiit when you put it that way.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

What the hell is this?

This doesn't sit right with me at all. It is almost like they are making a mockery of the man and everything he did. I remember not too long ago, people on Twitter were saying MLK was wrong and racist because he told people to just others by the context of their character and not their skin color. This world is messed up man. It is just getting worse.

I feel like we need to start saving and documenting everything in history before these Marxist lunatics destroy it all.

They are making a mockery of him. It is obvious. It seems as if every MLK Drive is not in a good area.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

It's so damn weird, but I kinda understand what they were going for here. Still a bit weird to put it in a game where the point is to shoot and kill enemies. I know you can't do it during this, but the fact that players can emote and do dumb things, makes it feel really distasteful to me.

I could see them instead doing a mode where it just shows clips from MLKs history. Without having it in a lobby where people can move about. I think that would be fine.

These wicked folks know what they are doing.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

I’m with you. It’s the typical liberal nonsense where they value signal but never propose anything that changes the status quo.

They are masters of not letting the status quo change.

 

[sourgrapes]

Did this really happen!? I only played the game for a minute and got bored with it. Man Epic Games is just like the rest of these gaming devs anymore. They all do crap for money. This sounds like nothing but a PR stunt.

 

[ART]

Absolutely disgusting and blasphemous. This is a mockery and yet another insulting, pandering gesture that costs and does nothing to repair Black America.

It's official. The descendants of MLK are nothing but sellouts, Democrat bootlickers, and a disgrace to his legacy. They are docile sellouts continuously riding off the coattails of their amazing ancestral forefather. They are no different than Raphael Warnock and other sellouts living off MLK's name and impact while stepping all over Black community just to have a Pillsbury biscuit platter deluxe with a glass of non-Black / white acceptance.