MLK was not a member of the KKK

With MLK Day approaching, I'd like to remind everyone that MLK was not a member of the KKK. Yea, many pointy hoods will try to take advantage of his great legacy to spread their virulent hate, by constantly thinking that "color blind" means "fuck blacks in the fucking ass". No, it doesn't. And I would kindly like to remind you that if King was that sort of sell out, he'd still be alive. Do you think some white racist would have killed him if he had smoothed down and let him wallow in his prejudice? If King had blurted lies- "Oh, massa white man, it is all our fault that you treat us so bad", he'd be alive and feted as one of those who makes money selling out our race- acting like we're just bad folks. There's no nation of millions that is composed uniformly of bad lazy folks, with only two or three special people who just happen to be better than the rest, and this is especially true as folks are born black- they don't choose it.

I know that this view comes from ignorance. People only remember one line from one speech, and try to make it stand for the entire man, the whole way he was, and it could never be like that. It makes it comfortable for conservative racists- they don't have to change anything, they don't have to feel obligated to pull up more than 12 percent of their compatriots, they don't have to think, they don't have to read.

I'm in a real Carl Sandburg mood. It's great to see someone writing a poem for justice instead of just wallowing in injustice. I wish I could have been at this protest, but I was in class- trying to fulfill what people had paid for in blood and tears. That's why I get so mad about this sort of thing- people died for this. People also died for us to be able to have decent wages, too, but that's another story. Anyway, you spit on their deaths by trying to make things go back to the way they were.