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.
It’s the imagery that has raised him to Sainthood status, for which he is not deserving of, that needs to be closely scrutinized. I think his entire record needs to be revisited to see him for the man that he was, someone seeking celebrity status and the limelight, someone who put all of that ahead of family. In his zeal to seek martyrdom, he inflicted profound damage upon his own children, none of whom have apparently been able to recover from (none of his adult children have even been able to have families of their own, a very sad spectacle). I think it is even wrong to have a national holiday named for him, especially when we ignore untold numbers of people that made very real contributions themselves, without the hypocrisy and destructiveness of this individual.