I still say that the reasons why many of you dislike the current black leaders are things they actually have in common with Dr. King.
For example, listen to this speech (below) by Dr. King and tell me if you still think he was "brave and enlightened". If I posted the text of this speech without this was a speech by Dr. King and asked for your opinions, words like "traitor" and "anti-American" would probably be used to describe the writer.
The mainstream media insists on simplifying Dr. King into a single speech as if he was seen as a great hero in his time, instead of a rather hated individual who was seen as a troublemaker by mainstream America.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...eaksilence.htm
Here are some short segments (the complete text is in the link above):
"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
"So they go, primarily women and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children."
"What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe?"
Personally, I think he was perhaps the most enlightened individual of the 20th century. And it is speeches like this that affirm that opinion. The "I have a dream" speech, while very inspiring, represents only a very small part of what Dr. King stood for.