Current Events > MLK criticism of Malcolm X appears to have been fabricated

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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1656276406010011649
Because the article is pay walled, here's the relevant bits: https://twitter.com/PeabodyA/status/1656288554522222592?t=kpmuEfcgcMHX8nOhDU-DEg&s=19

So the X-Men comics are all a lie?

They said a lot of things about MLK that wasnt true to try and smear his image

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7071713/FBI-tapes-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-40-affairs-laughed-friend-raped-parishioner.html

Man you're saying the government that assassinated MLK also lied about stuff he said?

Never would have thought that

Fun story:

MLK was originally not a part of the March on Washington. It was originally going to me a lot more active, with protesters clogging the streets and disrupting businesses until their demands for the Civil Rights Bill were met. The NAACP hoped that by including MLK he would tone down the protests, which he did. MLK grew to resent this and would eventually go on to say "My dream has turned into a nightmare."

By the end of their lives, MLK had become more radical while Malcolm X had mellowed out more after his pilgimage to Mecca. So their beliefs were converging.

BB_mofo posted...

Fun story:

MLK was originally not a part of the March on Washington. It was originally going to me a lot more active, with protesters clogging the streets and disrupting businesses until their demands for the Civil Rights Bill were met. The NAACP hoped that by including MLK he would tone down the protests, which he did. MLK grew to resent this and would eventually go on to say "My dream has turned into a nightmare."

By the end of their lives, MLK had become more radical while Malcolm X had mellowed out more after his pilgimage to Mecca. So their beliefs were converging.

Horseshoe theory

Maybe their views were ultimately never that different

UnfairRepresent posted...

Horseshoe theory

Maybe their views were ultimately never that different

They wanted the same thing, but their methods started out different. What I mean is that it was their beliefs in what method would best achieve this that were converging. Malcolm X became more inclusive about who participated in his movement. MLK had to become more exclusive after he realized moderates were more interested in an unjust peace than in doing the right thing.