2016 Postmortem

We admire him for what he did and accomplished, but why would we try to repeat his work? If it were completely successful we would not be here. When I hear MLK and this message coming FROM whites TO blacks, it really does not have the same influence as it does coming from MLK directly.
What I suggest is this. Admire him if you do, it makes sense, but never try to use him to win in a discussion with black liberals or activists or thinkers and those of us who spend the time understanding the true history of the african diaspora. I would say read more Ta Nehisi Coates. Find newer black leaders and academics to use as a means of understanding black people in America today.
When MLK was around they wanted him to be Frederick Douglass and W.E.B DuBois; in this day they want us to be MLK. I sometime wonder if it would please them to watch us sing 'We Shall Overcome' while getting spit and beat on and bit by dogs and just sitting there like dumbasses hoping against hope that the horror of this would change white minds. It never did. It embarassed them to have the world watching.
When we hear/see/read a leftist progressive trying to use MLK as a weapon, we know they lack the wherewuthal to come up with a way to connect with us without using cheap tricks and manipulation. Everybody from Bernie to Bill Oreilly has tried to use MLK. We will not repeat that movement and sit there and be abused for the amusement if white americans or as props to show how human we are. We tried the nonviolent turn the other cheek bullshit forever. We are basically malcolm x now. We don't want to be MLK. He died.