Thank you for this. Like Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King was a deep thinker with insights far ahead of his time. Efforts to sanitize King and portray him as a status quo figure are appalling. Heck, when he was murdered, he was engaged in a poor people's campaign. That's NEVER mentioned. Nor is his condemnation of the Vietnam War. He's portrayed only as someone who spoke out for nonviolence.

But it was a powerful activist nonviolence, like Gandhi's. It was the kind of nonviolence that jettisoned an occupying power from India. He was a moral force and when (and if) we remember him properly, WE can become a moral force.