I don’t think a lot of FReepers, or most folks in general, have a clue as to his true political ideology. Had he not been martyred, which was his wish, he’d have been standing arm-in-arm with the far-left race-baiting hucksters of today. He led his own people into the bondage of big government, a fate for which even the most rabid White Supremacist couldn’t have dreamed of for the sheer destructiveness to the Black family & culture.
Unless you consider the wholehearted embrace of Socialism to be a principle we should admire, and to associate it with Republicans, I am very concerned about. Sadly, the more I learned about the man, the less attractive a person and leader he appeared to be.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, we can only deal with the image and civil rights icon created over the last 40 years. My post was not about MLK, but about recapturing the issue of individual rights, as opposed to majority rule democracy, as the keystone and definition of Republicanism.