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]mythology
(9,527 posts)if he thinks they couldn't take a quote out of context. They do it all the time.
But I suspect that many people who claim the King legacy would be disappointed and uncomfortable if King was alive today. King had multiple goals and none of us know how he would have evolved. Even his own family is divided on how he would have looked at same sex marriage. Likewise, nobody knows how our society would have evolved if a leader like King who had great success in having Jim Crow laws removed and getting the Voting/Civil Rights acts passed. Could he have made a transformational change to our economic system or our criminal justice system that would have shifted society? We don't know.
Anybody, including the author of this piece, who claims to know for certain what King would make people feel today, is just speaking from their own view on what King would do.