Many people are familiar with the peaceful monk-like image of Martin Luther King Jr. that is so popular. In reality, the story of Dr. King has been sanitized, polished, and glorified. We've all heard the timeless soundbites from the I Have a Dream and Mountaintop speeches that are circulated every year around the time of the MLK federal holiday. However, most people would be shocked to hear the things that Dr. King preached in the final years of his tragically short life. The MLK that most people are unfamiliar with condemned the War in Vietnam, sympathized with rioters in Chicago, and demanded that the United States government reimburse African-Americans for 350 years of oppression. Now, I am the last person to fall for every conspiracy theory presented to me, but did you know that in 1999 a jury found the unnamed United States intelligence agencies guilty of aiding in Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. I am being 100% genuine and serious. A jury of 12 (six black six white) actually unanimously came to that verdict in under an hour. The case had over 70 witnesses present evidence (It's hard to believe, so google search Coretta Scott King et al. vs Loyd Jowers et al. I mean this was published in the New York Times) . At the very least the U.S. government knew of a planned assassination and turned their head. That's not the point, the point is, why after all of the fame King had obtained, did it take until April of 1968 for somebody to decide to assassinate him?
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