“ It was like watching a community you thought you knew reveal itself as something else. ”
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.
The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.
In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
