Martin Luther King Jr. - 'Why America May Go to Hell.'

King would be vilified worse than Obama's preacher if he were still around today. Though, I guess, media vilification trumps being shot to death. Progress?

Washingtonpost.com: Martin Luther King Jr.: The Legacy:

"On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had retreated to room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, worrying about a sanitation strike in Memphis and working on his sermon for Sunday. Its title: 'Why America May Go to Hell.' For King, whose focus had shifted from civil rights to antiwar agitation and populist economics, the Dream was turning dark.

...To his family, King was murdered because he was no longer the King of the March on Washington, simply asking for the whites only signs to come down. He had grown radical: the King of 1968 was trying to build an interracial coalition to end the war in Vietnam and force major economic reforms--starting with guaranteed annual incomes for all. They charge that the government, probably with Lyndon Johnson's knowledge, feared King might topple the "power structure" and had him assassinated. "The economic movement was why he was killed, frankly," Martin Luther King III told NEWSWEEK."