MLK

Lots of piety today.

I think Martin Luther King Jr was an ambiguous character. Who isn't? Like the other assassinated movers of the Sixties, the two Kennedys and Malcolm X, his life was cut short and that kind of death gave a martyr's shape to his life. Had he, and the others, lived longer, I think we would be seeing all of them in quite different lights. We forgive martyrs much.

One of MLK's achievements was to enshrine American Blacks in the victim position forever and to provoke in American liberals the compulsive reaction of guilty perpetrators. We are all Bull Connors, they are all the Birmingham schoolgirls. It was primarily through racial guilt, I suspect, that the whole poison of PC entered American life and has brought us in many ways to the mess that we are in.

The current incompetent incumbent would never have been elected were he not half-Black, --the white part of his family that actually took care of and did not abandon him, quite forgotten--benefitting from the dynamic the MLK and his guilty worshippers ensured for us.