The Invisible King Monday 17 January 2011 by: Tom H. Hastings, t
r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Half-removed paste up of Martin Luther
King Jr. on Hungerford Bridge over the Thames, London. (Photo:
duncan) You watch. Over the weekend and on Monday, the
Hallmarked memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be
sanitized and blackwashed until he is no more than a sentimental
husk hoping that little children of all races will one day be
able to play together. Then you'll see shots of just that, as if
to indicate, "Well, thanks, that's all done, nice historical
figure. Bye." One of these years, they will probably launch the
USS Martin Luther King Jr., a spanking new destroyer, or perhaps
they will name a class of drone aircraft the "MLK Ground
Dominators." But who was this King guy? What did he really stand
for and how can we most accurately and sincerely honor his name
and legacy? King was a radical pacifist who used Gandhian
nonviolence and then, with others in his movement, improved upon
it. Gandhi was the Henry Ford of