Squires: MLK’s successors foolishly turned the political tactic of victimhood into a cultural identity

One of the enduring legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the “white flight” of a black leadership class that is more concerned with changing hearts and minds in Silicon Valley than in Compton.
 

King’s imitators are in bed with white knights in politics, big tech, big business, and corporate media. The NAACP’s “I take responsibility” campaign was a clear example of how easy it is for a civil rights organization to become more concerned with getting white liberals to repent of their sins than improving the conditions of black communities.

A similar dynamic exists for elected officials. The mayor of Washington, D.C., had the words “BLACK LIVES MATTER” painted in the middle of the street leading up to the White House. Trolling Donald Trump did nothing to preserve black life in a city where the vast majority of homicide victims are young black men.