“Brother Martin would not be invited to the very march in his name"

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20. Why not? Some of us were alive and politically aware at that time....

And we can make a pretty good guess as to what his positions would be based on what he said at the time. He was a democratic socialist for Dog's sake. That would be as unwelcome as a screen door on a submarine in today's Democratic Party. Hell, as I said above, MLK was actually too radical for the Dem Party of his day, so he would DEFINITELY be too radical for today's bunch.

Oh yeah, and some of us thought he was WAY too centrist.

Edited to add: The reason he was killed was because he started to get more heavily involved in economic justice and anti-imperialism issues. It's no accident that he was in Memphis to support the garbage haulers strike when he was killed. You can be popular and mess with the social issues, but you better not be popular and mess with the owner's profits. That's a death sentence in the dictatorship of capital.