Obama supporters from Atlanta to Chicago wore T-shirts illustrated with the profiles of Dr. King and Mr. Obama side by side. Not even Dr. King could. The Dr. King we choose to remember was indeed the symbolic beacon of the civil rights movement. In his last book, in 1967, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” Dr. King warned that the movement was already hobbled by delusion. To proceed otherwise is to perpetuate the “fantasy of self-deception” that Dr. King rejected.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2017 19:30 UTC