The libs are using MLK merely as a means to their end result, which is exactly how they use each fragmented element of society and their perceived heroes and martyrs.
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. A living wage should be the right of all working Americans, and this is what we wish to urge upon our Congressmen and Senators as they now prepare to deal with this legislation.
And there's more...as he advocated on behalf of leftist union mobsters in 1961:
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote.
MLK's anti-business, pro-union thug rhetoric was evident in his address to the corrupt goons of the Illinois AFL-CIO in 1965:
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome.
The myth that MLK was anything like a Conservative is a falsehood. Actually liberals are right to embrace him -- he was one of them, just like Mao, Lenin and Castro.