DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Garland NAACP receives racist voicemail calling Martin Luther King Jr. the N-word

Days after the Garland NAACP branch had to scramble to find a platform to broadcast its annual observances for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, an anonymous caller left the group a hate-filled voice message.

On Monday, Garland NAACP leaders told Texas Metro News that a caller left a voicemail message on the branch’s business telephone line sometime Saturday afternoon referring to Dr. Martin Luther King by the N-word and making light of the slain civil rights leader’s death.

“MLK is a good (N-word), but that’s because he’s a dead (N-word,), the caller said in the eight-second recording left on the civil rights’ organization’s voicemail.