Well I'm always willing to learn. Just what of what King stood for was just plain bad?
"Just what of what King stood for was just plain bad?"
A better question would be: What was good?
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say. By using your yardstick of moral righteousness, any historic figure should be weighed solely by the content of their words - not by the content of their character or the consequences of their actions.
In my view, King role did that was positive little beyond reminding us of our Constitutional duty to provide equality under the law - something, I might add, Americans have ALWAYS led the world in. His abruptly terminated legacy and his followers have wrought positive mayhem in their zeal for the "dream" and its suppose utopia.