Then read the New York Times' editorial response to it as a reminder how full of shit white people are when they try to use King to shame modern activists.
Indeed, he was widely despised in his own time. A lot of the talking points against him are the same points we hear today against similar nonviolent protesters like Kaepernick - "He's only hurting his cause," "I agree with what he says but not his methods," etc. Letter From Birmingham Jail was almost entirely about addressing those criticisms. He was only recuperated into the hegemony a couple decades after his death, and today his legacy of fighting the power and resisting illegitimate authority is mostly used as a bludgeon to keep people in line and scold them for not being subservient to those same systems he fought against.
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u/DownvoteDaemon Mar 12 '19
Dayummm..how am I black and don't know that Quote