DisillusionedCitizen wrote:What were his politics again? Just Pro-Integration?
Additionally, did people learn from his (mostly pacifistic) messages too well? Because I'm suspecting that might be the case, as people did with Gandhi.
1. Pro-integration and black rights, yes. Malcolm-X was pro black rights as well, but he focused on building a black identity, distinct and "powerful", distanced from white people. He essentially never fought to end segregation, was for keeping races separate.
2. The pacifism is actually just completely a psyop.
I dislike MLK, but he was no pacifist. He actively fought against being "moderate" and pushed certain messages that were anti-establishment enough to get him killed.
And what did his "followers" do when he died? Mass rioting. Doesn't sound like they were pacified to me.
The Pacifism actually comes from later influences in the US, notably from the Cold War, where there have been many shady operations to prevent dissent.
The same kind of shit that Communism gets away with, just more veiled. They do play both sides.