Normies still consider him a heroic figure in the Civil Rights Movement, and don't realize he's cut from the same mold of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, i.e. a complete charlatan that uses the name of Christ as a financial and/or political wedge.
He didn't believe in the Triune God, rejected the Virgin Birth, and even the deity of Christ.
The only difference is that MLK Jr. is lionized by the state and its courtiers, whereas most people-even liberals-acknowledge that Sharpton and Jackson are more or less hucksters.
It's unfortunate, but much of the Church has been taken over by wolves in sheep's clothing.
Not just the black church, but the broader Church, which is infected with prosperity preachers, "woke" political activists disguised as pastors, charismatic charlatans, theives and charlatans of every stripe.
My pastor calls this the Laodicean Age.