“ The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind. ”
If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else.
In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
