King was no apparently no angel, but he was no race-baiter; no “black leader” since his death has had as much “white” support, because his demands were reasonable - he didn’t want them to become dependent pets of Dem politicians, but rather grown-up Americans. He was supporting workers on strike, while today’s “black leaders” support people who haven’t had a W-2 issued to their family in generations.
I’m sure back in his day (I was born after he was killed) it was much easier for blacks to hold their heads up; what so many of them have been reduced to at this point is a damned shame.
I was in the Navy between 1951 and 1955, home port Norfolk, and there was Jim Crow Laws in the South. The Military was integrated and while we could not hang out together on the beach in the south we could on ship, and in foreign countries. Met some of the best men I have ever known then, they just happened to be Negro.
There are so many race baiters nowadays. It is only respect for my old friends and men like Lt. Col. Allen West that stop me from universalizing a poor opinion of almost every Negro who opens his or her mouth.
You should look at photos of Blacks in DC just after the Civil War and compare them to today. You’re right the photos say a lot about the fall of Black culture and the race baiters who seduce them!