What Martin Luther King Really Did

Read this diary post from HamdenRice

...what most people who reference Dr. King seem not to know is how Dr. King actually changed the subjective experience of life in the United States for African Americans.  And yeah, I said for African Americans, not for Americans, because his main impact was his effect on the lives of African Americans, not on Americans in general.  His main impact was not to make white people nicer or fairer.  That's why some of us who are African Americans get a bit possessive about his legacy.  Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, despite what our civil religion tells us, is not color blind.

Go read the whole thing. It changed me.