Expanding the MLK Myth
When Martin Luther King Day became an official holiday, there was no way you could remove him from the pantheon of American heroes.
That's why conservatives have been so dedicated in adopting King as one of their own and finding hidden clues that he was actually a dyed-in-the-wool conservative.
We all know that he is really the God of White Dispossession, but with conservatives’ desperate attachment to America and its hall of heroes, they can’t bear the thought that their country would honor a man that seeks their downfall.
So they have become the biggest proponents of mythologizing MLK to the the point of ridiculousness. Case in point, a recent interview WorldNetDaily (better known for biblical prophecy theories and birther conspiracies) had with MLK's niece, Alveda King.
King is one of the many Black conservatives who exist solely to tell White conservatives what they want to hear. Similar to Dinesh D'Souza's "quintessential American" Star Parker, Mrs. King had two abortions early in life (and would've had a third if her family hadn’t refused to pay for it). She then had a supposed "come to Jesus" moment and now works full-time promoting the notion that her uncle was actually a Republican (with little evidence to bolster her claim).
That's no concern though when hard conservatives need to enlist MLK to validate their ideas. So instead of hearing about an open social democrat who philandered and plagiarized his doctoral thesis, we hear a tale of a divine saint that transcended the human condition. Not only that, but contrary to all credible evidence, he was a social conservative who knew abortion equaled Black genocide ...
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