Martin Luther King’s hate mail eerily resembles criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement

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18. Here's a bit from a transcript and video

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"JAY: So why does the conservative icon president, Reagan, sign a declaration to have a Martin Luther King Day?

BALL: Well, I mean, in many ways it's--you know, Howard Zinn used to say that omission is worse than lying. If you lie to someone, you leave a trail; if you omit something, you leave no trail for people to investigate and discover the truth. Dr. King was probably too big to fully omit, and there was enough of a groundswell in this country and around the world, given even the anti-apartheid movement and other struggles that were happening at the time that were, you know, sort of capturing the minds of good, well-meaning people all around the world and in this country, a strong push to get some sort of commemoration for somebody who was so well loved that you can't omit him. So let's honor him. We'll prop him up every year. He did it begrudgingly, of course. I mean, Reagan didn't--. You know. And then every year we'll remind people of a version of King that didn't actually exist but that will help people settle into an acceptance of what's still going on, all of which, again, King was aggressively trying to organize us to wipe out.

JAY: I guess one part of it is good, 'cause at least it makes, every year, people talk about this and gives us an opportunity to have a discussion. But is this also about trying to eliminate the significance of that, you know, civil rights uprising in the 1960s, just how profound that was?

BALL: Well, in part it's to do just that. It's also to give the impression that that movement was successful and it could be put into the dustbins of history. You know, sort of from time to time, you know, happily we can look back on it and smile and have fond memories of the hard times that we've overcome and so on and so forth, and then, of course, forget that almost everything that Dr. King was trying to get us to get rid of was actually worsening--and to this day is in some aspects still worsening."