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

[DirkGently]

3. MLK supported Planned Parenthood and Socialism.

RWers always seem to skip over those parts, too.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/20/3177871/martin-luther-king-radicalism/

King was a strident critic of capitalism and materialistic society, and urged Americans to “move toward a democratic socialism.” Referring to the now iconic Greensboro Lunch Counter sit-ins, he asked, “What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can’t afford to buy a hamburger?”

“I have always been deeply interested in and sympathetic with the total work of the Planned Parenthood Federation,” he said in 1960. He connected reproductive justice with racial justice, noting that the impoverished African American community had “a special and urgent concern” in family planning. Because of these views, he believed access to contraception and family planning programs should be funded by the government.