Welcome everyone, just a quick note that today's episode is a rerun as we take a few personal days off to attend some

doctors appointments and things like that. Now I didn't make an MLK episode in January this year so I thought I would pull this episode one of my favorites from last year

featuring a lot of the details of Martin Luther King Jr. you won't hear about on TV or from other mainstream outlets. Enjoy!

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall hear just a few of the details of Martin Luther King Jr. that we're not taught in school.

From his opposition to the Vietnam War to his support of redistribution of wealth through democratic socialism or by any other means as long as the result was a more equal economic society.

And how it was necessary for America to forget all of these details in order to make him the hero we see him as today.

Either that or the sanitized version of King was made into a hero with the intention of burying those more subversive ideas.

Our clips today come from the newsbeat, intercepted, counter-spin, start making sense and making contact.

I have a dream.

I have a dream.

I must confess that the dream that I had that day has in many points turned into a nightmare.

Roger C. Williams, pastor, first Baptist Church.

As the pastor of a Baptist Church, I'm often pressed into service by local officials to participate in a day of remembrance for the late Dr. King.

Invariably, the day's events invoke the most famous of his words.

It seems the entire legacy of this man has been distilled into these four words, packaged and spoon-fed to the public.

But this was merely a moment in time and an evolution of thought.

It in no way embodies the complexities of the man or the movements he inspired.

And we're doing a disservice to our children by striking a single note over and over again, expecting them to hear the entire symphony.

If we want to truly honor the legacy and works of Dr. King, we must certainly acknowledge the March on Washington as a high point in the civil rights movement as it precipitated the passage of some important reforms in our nation.

Increasingly, however, Dr. King became disillusioned with the political process and what he saw as an organized effort to marginalize people of color around the world

and to pit the working class against itself by provoking racial discord.

The former is illustrated by his vehement and unpopular opposition to the Vietnam War.

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