So true Re King. Many don’t know he was a republican.
Our Scared pub ines afraid to cite that.
Dr King a Republican?
He was an Edward Brooke/Dick Olgilvie Republican. Many small tent Freepers would deny that he was a “real” Republican. (A little IL angle there. I was active in his Chicago Westside area before and after MLK was there. While he was there, I was in Vietnam.
Many activists on the left did not welcome MLK. He did not cater to neither the Alinsky/Tom Gaudete nor Alinsky/Shell Trap nor Jesse Jackson nor Obama schools of organizing.
How long did it take before a majority of Black Alermen would support naming a street after him?
How many FReepers today do not agree with his “judge a person by the content of character and not by color of skin”?
It seems some FReepers still judge by color of skin, a very collectivist thing to do. The MLK dream has a long way to go.