![]() ![]() Those supposed friends of the Movement felt that Dr. ![]() King and his contemporaries used in their fight for civil rights. ![]() The letter was a reply to fellow clergy who, while espousing ally-ship, questioned the means Dr. King while he was incarcerated for spearheading a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama. For those unfamiliar with the missive, it was written by Dr. One need look no further than his Letter from Birmingham Jail. Anyone responsible for this ongoing identity theft disserves him and dishonors his memory. King was a radical figure whose words and actions have been desalinated to make him more palatable to the American public. Though much has been written, it is not widely accepted that Dr. That picture is intentionally incomplete, and wholly devoid of any brushstroke that would depict him for what he truly was: radical to his core. ![]() The picture we are too often presented is one of a placid and rhetorically proficient social justice warrior, who through nonviolence sought to placate America into mending its racial divide. However, the man we celebrate is not the man who was. and used the day to retell of his efforts to realize racial and social justice in America. For roughly the past forty years the country has celebrated the birthday of Dr. ![]()
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