Yes - it was tactical, however, I think that should increase a right-winger’s respect for MLK. He was not, for example, a Christian pacifist, unwilling to take serious action. Rather, on the basis of the Christian realist theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, MLK held that doing no violence and being visibly treated unjustly was how to gain the moral high ground. I think the right would do well to adopt this strategy.
Yes - it was tactical, however, I think that should increase a right-winger’s respect for MLK. He was not, for example, a Christian pacifist, unwilling to take serious action. Rather, on the basis of the Christian realist theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, MLK held that doing no violence and being visibly treated unjustly was how to gain the moral high ground. I think the right would do well to adopt this strategy.