Yes, and he seems to have meant it. A movie that was made while MLK was alive, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? about an interracial romance, has the son (played by Sidney Poitier) in the romance saying to his father:
"Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man." (cf. here)
That is what conservatives want men to think of themselves as: men. Not white men, not black men, not red men, not yellow men, not rainbow men, MEN. (That includes Bruce Jenner, but I digress.) And women to think of themselves as women, not white women, not black women, not red women, not yellow women, not rainbow women, WOMEN. In the world that King and Poitier wanted, the only problem Rachel would have would be finding a productive job, because she wouldn't have had to con the NAACP into making her executive director in Spokane, because there would be no need for an NAACP, because there would be no CP or WP or AP or IP, only P.
great post. you are absolutely right.
i supervised over 50 people at a presentations center in NYC investment bank. Every race, creed and color I worked with. Treated everyone the same and was very well liked and respected. And they were mostly liberals.
This country is not a salad. It is a melting pot!!