Martin Luther King’s most radical demand was economic repair, not just legal rights.

Evidence

King was evoked continuously during the 2020 season of protests, sometimes to defend those who looted and torched buildings, sometimes to condemn them. But during that time of foment and its ongoing aftermath, we’ve witnessed an astounding silence around his most radical demands. The seldom-quoted King is the one who said that the true battle for equality, the actualization of justice, required economic repair. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1369