2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If MLK Were Alive, He'd Make White Folks Just as Uncomfortable as Black Lives Matter [View all]lovemydog
(11,833 posts)was incredibly low. As I recall from what I remember reading, it was below 20%. People were turning against him for having come out against the Vietnam War. And for his poor people's movement. And for standing with black sanitation workers in Memphis who wanted the right to organize.
He had a lot of criticism of white liberals in the north who talked a big game but failed to walk the walk. He said that in Chicago and other places up North, many liberals would tell him what he wanted to hear but then go about not doing a damn thing. People were saying he was being funded by communists from the Soviet Union. That he should stick just to civil rights. Or to preaching. Not get involved in other matters. I've learned all this from reading books about him. By people who were with him.