Nobody wants to talk about the real King because then you are defaming a black hero, even if it’s all true, perhaps especially if it’s all true, and by extension all black people. Can’t do that.
I’m with others here in believing the man was a good deal more good than bad, but it is interesting that the article doesn’t even discuss the issues that really made him a complex character.
I’ve often wondered, if he had lived, how the black “civil rights” movement would have evolved. I see three main possibilities:
1. King might have evolved away from the color-blind ideology in a Jackson/Sharpton race-baiting direction in order to stay out in front of his followers.
2. He might have stuck with his color-blind approach and been discredited and abandoned as an Uncle Tom.
3. He might have kept the civil rights movement from deteriorating to its present pathetic whitey-blaming condition, which would have resulted in much better race relations in America by this point in time.
Only the third would be a real improvement over what we have today, but due to his murder we’ll never know whether it could have happened.
Because they're waiting until the agents who spied on him are gone. I'm sure there's political pressure, but the FBI also has practical reasons to lock the files.