I can't believe how many conservatives have bought into the myth of Martin Luther King as some sort of voice of moderation against black radicalism. He was more intelligent and rational than foaming at the mouth agitators like Malcolm X, but that's also what made his radicalism more effective. In many ways, MLK was to Malcolm X in his day what Obama is to Louis Farrakhan in our day: somebody who can take radical ideology and package it in a form acceptable to much of mainstream society.
Obama doesn't foam at the mouth or spout hateful rhetoric either, he talks about "equality" and "social justice" when visiting cities where police and blacks are in conflict, and pays lip service to the need for peaceful protest. But as with Martin Luther King, the words from Obama are a tacit invitation to riot, loot, and burn.
If folks did a little research into the real MLK, their eyes would be opened.
We rightly condemn John Kerry for calling our soldiers war criminals, but King got away with it.