I get the fact that various people of various political persuasions have attempted to “adjust” the legacy of MLK. But to call him a “fake hero?” C’mon.
When Jackie Kennedy came out on that tape recorded after her husbands assassination in early 1964 describing MLK as a “phony” I guess that confirmed what some folks have felt for years about him between the sexual conduct and communist associations.
I heard about both when I was a teenager from conservative preachers and commentators who bought blocks of time on the radio in the 1960’s and 70’s.
The Kennedy Administration authorized the FBI spying on King in late 1963 and according to author Taylor Branch, it was yielding knowledge about both issues.
JFK preferred a John Boehner approach to civil rights.
Talk a lot about it, do nothing significant.
I think King was disrupting the political machinery that JFK built to win a narrow 1960 victory by getting most blacks and many white segregationists alike to support him.
In 1963 JFK waa worried about re-election in 1964.
He ended up going to Texas to build unity between pro and anti civil rights factions of the Democrat Party.
When your own family considers you nothing more than a money-making tool, you’ve become meaningless. Personally I’ve had more than enough of Martin Luther King. He’s dead and has been for forty-five years. In his life he affected little, in death he affects nothing.