Then you get people like Malcolm X who was so successfully demonized that his name still scares white folks, if they hear it said out loud.

Assassinated by the US government.

And then there's Fred Hampton. A name that they pretty successfully kept from becoming well known to begin with. Which is truly such a fucking shame.

Brutally assassinated by the US government while asleep in his bed.

USA deifies someone seeking for change in class equality, after ignoring them, mocking them, vilifying them, making their life miserable and then when the history is written, they write their efforts being synonymous to "merican values" like everyone forgets how most of the country hated their guts.

You can literally see it happening currently with ICE protestors. The population is either detached, apathetic or want them to suffer harshly, just for protesting.

But one day everyone would have been against this and it'll be part of "merican values" not how the whole country didn't give a flying fuck about human rights and how it treats people in their country and around the world.

He agitated for civil rights for a decade, but once he started the Poor People's Campaign and pivoted to talking about class instead of just race, he was killed within months.

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

When someone is in control of a movement large enough to potentially rise up to threaten the lives of those in power, they stop him by any means necessary. Once he's dead, though, they can point to him as the prime example of how nonviolence totally solves all the world's problems! Put that guy's name on a street in every town! They always thought he was great!

I mean obviously they hated him, they were white

Black people on the other hand overwhelmingly (84% in 1966) approved of him: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/16/politics/martin-luther-king-jr-polling-analysis

The whites in America *

Yeah, especially all those people who weren't alive yet.

Even sadder :Amerikkka: have given up violently challenging the quo.