I am often sickened by the way the media will play up veneration and yet ignore the very things which caused even the Democratic/LBJ establishment to turn against King: the energies and emphasis he placed upon the “further works of reconcilation” to which he turned his attention after the voting Rights act of 1965: poverty and war. I have often felt that it was these latter stages that brought about the plot and the action to have him killed. He was in the midst of planning a Poor People’s march, and he had been an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war. Those two were economic dynamite; challenges to savage capitalism, and it cost him his life.
Also, have you ever noticed who often leads the MLK Day parades? The military! Odd, for such a Christian who believed in non-violence. (They do this in San Diego, so I know!)
Peace,
Eric
Wow…..
I was JUST in the process of finishing up a post (“First John Paul II then MLK”) that is very much on that subject. Funny convergence of thought/sensibilities there.
Dale
I was remarking to my wife that it is ironic that there are National Comemorations of MLK , but the bulk of the CHURCHES , nary a mention.