Hating MLK, For A Reason

THERE ARE STILL MANY PEOPLE ALIVE who didn't like Martin Luther King when he was alive, people who thought, and still think, MLK was nothing other than a troublemaker. Conservative white folks, for the most part. Why is that uppity black man making trouble? Let society make its own choices, naturally. You've heard it all before...These same people still do not like MLK, although they are a bit more quiet about it these days. The same people who today do not like the Black Lives Matter Movement would never have liked Martin Luther King, because MLK spoke out, loud and clear, about injustice, just as Black Lives Matter is doing today. MLK might be a bit disappointed, were he alive and eighty seven years old today, at our lack of progress in creating a truly egalitarian, just society. But not entirely disappointed. He would surely recongize the improvement we've made, even though it isn't quite enough, or so it seems. The dirty little secret, of course, is that Martin Luther King was a socialist, card carrying. As he lived and learned, King realized that it would be usless to talk about and advocate for racial justice, without doing the same for economic justice. As long as society was divided into impoverished and wealthy classes, so too would it be divided along racial lines, and in other ways as well. So, MLK preached socialism, based on greater economic equality. Any of you consevatives who didn't realize that before now, just consider: now you have, at long last, a perfectly good reason to hate Martin Luther King, and no longer have to hate him secretly!