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Martin Luther King started debatably conservative, dismissing radical politics like a nice old uncle ,later he began to acknowledge them some time near the after math of the Northern Race riots and post Civil Rights Legislation, and was stuck keeping a relationship with radicals
Whilst maintaining his relationship with conservative leaders, Probably after noticing the hypocrisy of the white liberal that helped Desegregation in their refusal to help northern negroes. King finally able to focus on the North Negro struggle looks like he came to a conclusion
In a Fall 1967 speech King questions the integrity of the United States with their economic system and War, looks like after touring Watts after the race riots he realized this Transcended eating sandwiches next to white people
King void of focus on the golden era of civil rights in the south from 1954 to 1965 began to question whether the changes he fought for were even substantial due to the little changes his judicial victories made in the north ghettos, there was a change in MLK in 1967 Dyson writes
MLK focused on negro struggle in the north, he criticizes captalism And imperialism in his speeches with out calling it that, becomes Anti-war, drew parralels to black struggle globally, even reevaluated his non violence position calling for it to mature to "civil disobedience"
MLK began in 1967 to talk about class struggle without explicitly mentioning class struggle particularly in his Anti-Vietnam War speech at Riverside church Exactly one year before he was assassinates , this speech left a bad taste w/ Black and White liberals that supported King
The media was extremely critical of MLKs anti war position, from Time magazine to Wapo, One year later MLK had been assassinated in Memphis where he had gone to support a Sanitation Workers strike,
11 years of struggling for judicial reform is what MLK(which he low-key concluded was not substantial) is celebrated for..... The year MLK began to question and challenge the roots of racial and economic inequality in the U.S.A he was cut down quickly for it Him and Malcolm X
So next time you hear MLK died for this really think hard About what he died for and it's certainly not so you can date a white person or be friends with them
Also gotta rescind all my *clears throat* Some of my comments... Amazing he was doing all of this and still found time to allegedly serial cheat on Coretta
Also fuck the NAACP
