The sanitized King deployed in public memory conceals rather than confronts racial injustice.

Evidence

Sometimes it feels that way. But it is always a particular version of Dr. King—the King of the March on Washington who dreamed, not the radical King who marched with garbage workers or understood the connection among the evils of poverty, racism, and militarism or called attention to the fact of “two Americas.” This whitewashed King often gets in the way of frank and fearless discussions of black suffering, because his words, in the hands of far too many, are used to hide racial habits and sustain the value gap. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 257

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated goal of distinguishing racial habits from prejudice — Glaude here plants the King-instrument lineage that sustains the value gap.