In his absorbing profile of the writer Alex Haley (author of "Roots" and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X") in the New York Times Book Review a year ago, Michael Patrick Hearn made a familiar mistake. He wrote: "Politically [Haley] he was a moderate, philosophically more Martin than Malcolm."
This Twitter thread that starts with a Tweet from Ben Shapiro really exemplifies the ignorance about King that is so common and the much more sophisticated truth.
In a different tweet, Shapiro tries to say that MLK Jr “the symbol” and “the man” should be separated. By symbol, Shapiro means simplistic racial equity with no acknowledgement for systemic racism. A pleasantly diluted message that is comfortable to conservatives. By the man, he means the holistic approach Dr. King actually took towards racial injustice. This is nothing more than another white person attempting to appropriate the blandest version of a civil rights hero so they don’t have to examine the faults of US society and the role that white people continue to play in its shortcomings.
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