What Martin Luther King felt about White people who were not outright racists...

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"First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection"

— Letter from a Birmingham jail, 1963

Has history “sanitized” King’s words?

Yes or no? Why/why not?

Are you not capable of thinking for yourself? How about you give your opinion on what he said.

What would be worse? A person that is amoral? Or a person that is immoral but believes he is moral. A person who is immoral and believes in something and stands for it even if he is wrong about it, is at least taking a stand, right?

Truth is arrived at through a conflict and confusion process. Diversity of thought is critical to that process. People who don't take a stand don't participate in that process and are effectively advocates of anarchy. They are the worst of the worst.

Maybe that is what King was saying.