Co-opting King: Why the Right Tries to Claim MLK
History • April 2012 • Views: 1,075
Right-wing politicians like North Carolina’s Jesse Helms used to demonize Martin Luther King as a subversive and communist. Conservative legislators in some states resisted creating an MLK holiday for years. Some on the far right grumbled about the creation of an MLK memorial on the national mall in Washington, D.C. But many of today’s conservatives have adopted an entirely different strategy…
Article at Right Wing Watch.