MLK

[zenith]

"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to

Comments

[plumsbitch]

Fantastic article.

[plumsbitch]

Yes, and the convenient suppressing of the fact that y'know, MLK and Malcom X spoke to each other, and were building links with each other. A fact that was certainly not ignored by the Nation of Islam, and very likely contributed to his assassination...

[slightlyfoxed]

It was the economic stuff that surprised me most recently - King advocating specific boycotts of financial institutions; saying that he'd hoped to persuade white southerners into feeling injustice, but after a specific campaign (Birmingham, I think) he realised they just had to use economic leverage to make white businesses crack.

I'm lazy and sleepy, but it does seem typical of the softening amnesia about King that I can only find his less hard-nosed quotes online.

[fridgemagnet]

If he was that happy-smiley, they wouldn't have shot him.