Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted on AllSides August 24th, 2013
From The Left
On this, black civil rights leaders agree: President Barack Obama isn’t the second coming of Martin Luther King Jr.
It’s tempting to compare the two men – “inevitable,” the New York Times said this week – but allies and some critics in the black community say Obama is not the leader of a movement. Instead, Obama is playing a different role in a different time.
