MLK was a great man. I remember the civil rights era as a boy. As a boy, I couldn’t understand how he was a minister but it seemed that all the white ministers were against what he was preaching. Was God colorblind? I went to integrated schools in NJ so I didn’t know what the big deal was about until the race riots of 1968. I remember 1968 as the year the country tore itself apart. MLK and my boyhood hero Robert Kennedy killed, race riots, anti-war demonstrations. Comparing 1968 with today, it really has gotten better in all aspects of life for most (not all) people in the past 50 years.