'We tend in our popular memory to think of Dr. King as a big civil rights teddy bear. But this guy was radical. King is not a figure to be sentimentalized. He's not a figure, to be flattened into a cardboard cutout,' Dr. Drew Dellinger said.
The daughter of the late civil rights icon said her father would encourage today's activist to further coordinate and collaborate in the push for change.
"It comes from the grassroots effort," she said. "It comes from the collective of the people. 'We the people' is still very powerful. We have a collective power. And when we stand in it, we can move mountains.""I saw you what tweeted this morning - 'Dear politicians/political influencers: When you tweet about my father's birthday, remember that he was resolute about eradicating racism, poverty and militarism.
"I was listening to a commentator a few years ago who said that Dr. King has been turned into Santa Claus kind of this jovial happy person who said, 'I have a dream,'" said Eva Paterson of the Equal Justice Society. "But I was a freshman in college when he was assassinated and remember that he was not well loved. His whole history has been revised and sanitized."
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