Since his death Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has been significantly whitewashed. American history teachers have emphasized his domestic desegregation efforts, without reference to his later critiques. King became less popular when he began to take on racial economic inequality and when he entered into foreign policy by opposing the Vietnam War, which should indicate how threatening it was to the established powers that be.
I wish progressives would invoke his anti-war statements in their advocacy for a smarter foreign policy approach. Moreover, I wish they would take strength from his views to back up their own.
Here are a few of his words about US foreign policy near the end of his life.
Strikingly relevant to today’s times.
If he were alive today, he would obviously oppose this Iraq conflict. We should remind all the moderates, or other pro-war misguided persons who would otherwise see themselves as supporters of King’s views, of this fact.
