Chauncey devega biography of martin luther king

          By Chauncey DeVega, Salon — We now "treat it like a day to celebrate King and we ignore the fact that all these other things are going on".

        1. By Chauncey DeVega, Salon — We now "treat it like a day to celebrate King and we ignore the fact that all these other things are going on".
        2. While Dr. King is praised as American royalty in post civil rights era America, he has been robbed of all of his radicalism, truth-telling.
        3. We do no honor to Brother Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by forgetting how much he was hated during his life.
        4. His essays can also be found at He also hosts a weekly podcast, The Chauncey DeVega Show.
        5. Use Muck Rack to listen to Ep. Jonathan Eig Takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Down Off The Monument and Makes Him Real by The Chauncey DeVega Show and.

          6. We do no honor to Brother Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by forgetting how much he was hated during his life....

          We do no honor to Brother Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by forgetting how much he was hated during his life.

          Through the propaganda machine of public memory it is far easier to engage in self-congratulation about Dr. King the patriot and hero, than to own how many of us who embrace his memory at present may very well have considered him a scourge if we were one of his contemporaries.

          And of course there are those folks who are alive today that were in fact Dr. King's contemporaries and now lie, distort, or conveniently forget in order to put themselves on the right side of history.

          There is a great piece by Obery Hendricks over at Salon that puts the hostility to Dr.

          King--as magnified by his stance against the Vietnam War and American militarism--in proper perspective:

          Suddenly, those he was willing to die for turned their backs to him; to legions of former supporters – both black and white – King became persona non grata almost overnight. 
          He was