Why Is It Wrong To Make Trouble For Racists On Martin Luther King Day? (They Don't Know Martin Luther King)

Excuse me as I follow in a long and proud tradition:

"There’s a kind of a deliberate dis-memory on the parts of those who are most challenged by King’s vision, and the rigorous demand for social justice that he articulated once he descended from that mountaintop experience, and revisited the valley where horrible crimes against black humanity were being committed. Where little girls were being blown to smithereens in church bombings. Where black people continued to be lynched in the Delta and murdered along the highways and byways of American culture.

So Martin Luther King Jr. was an inconvenient hero and icon for those who sought to distance themselves from his troublemaking and his controversy. So now they’ve converted his sharp challenge to American society, and co-opted his radical vision into a kind of namby-pamby 'We are the World' universalism that bypasses a challenge to their particular ideas.

The full story is: Here was a man who made most Americans, black and white, uncomfortable."

And that's why he's dead,...