King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.
King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.
The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.
King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.
King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.
The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.
Yeah, a big piece of revisionist history is portraying those two as fighting each other
For the same reason the wealthy keep trying to turn modern protesters against each other, or even voters against each other via means testing.
The two of them weren’t competing they were both working to the same ends.
And that scares the oligarchs when the poors unite.
I’m not an expert on civil rights, but I do remember King and Malcolm X having some… disagreements.