A Note On MLK and Politics.

Note to the New York Times:

Not only would King not have been elected president – sizeable number of Americans saw him as little more than a troublemaker – but King had no interest in elected office.  He saw himself as speaking truth to a fundamentally flawed system; it would have been the height of hypocrisy for him to pursue any elected office.

That’s all.

Jamelle

Jamelle Bouie is a writer for Slate. He has also written for The Daily Beast, The American Prospect and The Nation. His work centers on politics, race, and the intersection of the two.

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