COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RINF
Finally, MLK Jr’s
Revolution? Challenging Confederate Generals And US Generals Today
I don't know, but I'd sure accept, even with my respect for
history, the loss of old statues to generals if it indeed meant that today's
generals lost their poisonous influence over society.
It was, almost certainly, King's brave efforts against the
Vietnam War that cost him his life.
That, more than demands for racial integration, pitted him
against some extremely powerful and ruthless interests and almost certainly
rendered him a traitor in those people's eyes.
It did not take much in the 1960s to be labelled something
vile, and working against the holy national crusade against communism was more
than enough, and being viewed as a traitor then was a far more powerful
mumbo-jumbo than it is today
