Reply #95: But one side was vindicated and accomplished something . . .

[caseymoz]

. . . the other side is still vilified and did not, and both sides would have agreed that it's the latter that counted.

Remember Glen Beck holding his rally on MLK's birthday on the steps of the Lincoln Monument? He was trying was trying to soak up some of the prestige and status of MLK had and he couldn't do it. Conservatives will claim now that their ideology was all for King. Whether they mean it or not, or whether they're insane, that's a great victory when your enemies don't dare renounce you consciously or directly but have to resort to subterfuge or deceive themselves about it.

Don't expect that for Malcolm X, ever.