Conservatives weaponized King’s death to bury his radical vision

Evidence

Though King was barely in the ground, conservatives used these ideas to kill his radical vision: law and order, and shiftless, lazy black folk looking for handouts. They also contrasted the social engineering of big government with that of private-sector innovation and competition. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 298

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the value-gap and racial-habits analytical frame: shows how a rhetorical shift preserved the value gap after the civil-rights era.