In some ways China Jo is correct....but for the wrong reasons.
There was nothing positive about the life and death of George Floyd. Yet he has been held up as some of “martyr” - for what, exactly?
MLK, on the other hand, had a very positive message, that for many, was not well received while he lived. But in his very real martyr’s death, his principles gained much more authority and acceptance among Americans, until an executive decision by certain malign power brokers decided to censor and cancel that authority and acceptance, and they rewrote history to claim MLK was a “Communist”. He was nothing of the sort, but much more in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, an anti-colonist who was instrumental in breaking the nation of India out of its bondage to the British Empire.
MLK sought but the same for the descendants of the African slaves who had tried for years to gain parity with their fellow countrymen, but were stymied by a pervasive prejudice that seemed to run deep in the society. Thanks to his efforts, the former scorn of the Americans of African descent has turned to a nearly full acceptance and even some degree of admiration except within the Democrat Socialist party, who is still running the soft prejudice of low expectations and calling upon a societal ill that has been largely made moot in the past five or six decades.
Affirmative action has not been the friend of Americans of African descent, but has served to brand the recipients of that false benefit as somehow less competent and overly compensated for shoddy performance.