I've spoken about Jerry's skewed view of King
numerous times so read those if you like. Here's what I have to say this time.
Jerry has never done an ounce of research on Martin Luther King Jr.
King was heavily devoted to his principles of nonviolence. Jerry believes that King would've picked up a shotgun and gone postal on the KKK, King's own words contest that, as he argued that
violent revolution was impractical in the context of a multiracial society and further expanded on his principles of nonviolence in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, which he wrote during one of his angriest and passionate times. He does say that while he has his strong opposition to violence, he does believe in a sense of "constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth".
I wonder what Jerry might have interpreted that to mea- who are we kidding Jerry hasn't read Letter from Birmingham Jail. King was very pragmatic in a sense based on this, but he was also a very devout, spiritual and moral person. To say that he didn't stand for a degree of moral purity is just... wrong. Straight up, plainly, blatantly wrong.
As I explained
here, King used an assassination attempt on him in 1958 (that he survived by a literal HAIR) to preach about the necessity of nonviolence. If that happened today or if he lived back then, Jerry would talk more shit about King than he does Lizzy. Guaran-fucking-teed.
While their views were noticeably different King and Malcolm X did hold each other in high regard, at least sometimes (
Malcolm X famously reamed King and called him an "Uncle Tom"). However their general beliefs and approaches to their oppression have naturally gotten people to put them both on opposing ends of the "how did civil rights leaders fight racism" spectrum. It's hardly wrong and not an unreasonable conclusion to view them as dichotomous, by any means.
I'm not even an expert on King or anything, it's just that Jerry's image of him is so noticeably and laughably distorted that it falls apart with a few seconds of basic research. Lol