What he twists and thereby hides is that yes, indeed, the civil rights movement was diverted into a march toward socialism and away from the Founding Fathers.
Well and truly spoken, brother!
Indeed, I don’t know exactly where Dr. King fit on the political spectrum—he went to a very liberal school—but his father was a self-made man and a Republican until Nixon made the mistake of not taking King’s side. But the Civil Rights movement itself followed a very conservative course in that it stood for the full implementation of the guarantees of the Civil War Amendments. It wasn’t until Lyndon Johnson got fully involved that the legislation began to go beyond the intent of the framers of those Amendments. Once that happened, and in large part because King faced very radical, even revolutionary opposition in the northern urban centers among young urban blacks, that King began to trode dangerous ground, to oppose the war and to make demands that no one was in a position to meet, not even Johnson.