(WR) MLK Gospels

In one of the MLK Gospel working groups from the other section, I overheard one student say that King was killed in Washington, DC. This is historically incorrect, as I'm sure most of you know, but it's worth noticing just what a brilliantly telling error it is -- locating King's assassination at the heart of our nation's capital is false as history and at the same time true as process in precisely the way that locating Jesus' birth in Bethlehem is. As you build your own narrative interpretations of King, bear in mind just how important such mistakes and fictions, whether accidents of memory or deliberate literary creations, can be.