It’s easy to venerate an antiracist leader who’s been dead for decades, rather than the ones who are alive and fighting today. https://twitter.com/williamclouston/status/1286736993603522560

Before his murder, two thirds of Americans had an unfavourable opinion of Martin Luther King. Why? Because he wasn’t just talking about desegregating the South anymore. He was talking about poverty in Chicago, the war in Vietnam. He was monstered for it.

If you participate in the same monstering of BLM, are you sure you would have been amongst the third who could see through the demonisation of MLK? Or is it more likely you would have thought he’d exceeded his remit, that his tactics were too alienating and confrontational?