Of what value are the big parties when bad things happen.
Dr. Martin Luther King was rumored to be running for president in 1967 but he said this about politics instead.
On April 25, 1967 he said:
“I have come to think of my role as one which operates outside the realm of partisan politics raising the issues and through action create the situation which forces whatever party in power to act creatively and constructively in response to the dramatic presentations of these issues on the public scene.”
Hooray for MLK and the Bundy’s and others who take action to get the politicians attention and demonstrate to the world the politicians desire to control people with brutal force and not to change things in a positive direction.
Despite his flaws, I've come to see that MLK was a great man—qualitatively superior to the modern charlatans who have enriched themselves by exploiting his legacy.
MLK was a uniter, and he was a staunch believer in firm but peaceful protest for change. MLK would be utterly appalled at what the modern Civil Rights movement has become, with its constant race-baiting and lack of accountability in leadership. MLK—in my experience—was anything but a "hate Whitey" type of sellout. Modern leaders such as Al Sharpton and such ilk weren't fit to tie MLK's shoes.
Despite his flaws, MLK was simply a better man than his successors—who aren't nearly in the same class.
Was MLK any more flawed than any of the Founding Fathers, for instance? Objectively, probably not. He's another great example of a man whose words were much bigger than any flaws he possessed. I believe that today's Whites do a disservice to the 60's Civil Rights movement and MLK when they conflate today's race hustlers with MLK and the causes and methods he employed...