This is another thing about King that the public seems to have forgotten -- seems that every time he came to town, riots and looting broke out. Amazingly, he claimed to be non-violent, but violence always reared its ugly head when he was present.
For example?
Some people forget that the civil rights movement was not monolithic. There were groups like the Black Panthers who openly advocated violence. It is our good fortune as a country that Martin Luther King emerged as the most prominent leader of the movement. MLK was non-violent, and had the charisma (or whatever you want to call it) to convince others to stand up and be non-violent with him. Pretty extraordinary if you ask me.
As for his flaws - so what? As far as I know, there has only been one leader in the history of the world who was not flawed, Jesus. Reading the Bible reveals that God often chooses some mightily flawed people to do his work.
Right,and most of the violence came from white mobs that went crazy over the fact that he was in those towns to bring some justice to a VERY unjust system,Jim Crow laws.