Isn't it odd how everyone nowadays behaves as if MLK were the only martyr of the civil rights movement?

I was always much more of a SNCC follower, myself.

Also odd that Sen Obama doesn't mention anything about the misogyny of the mainstream civil rights and Black Muslim wing of the Black Power and Black Arts movement.

That's pretty damn selective, IMO, when supposedly taking "one's own" to task for being anti-Semitic and homophobic.

What about anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant racism? What about the militaristic bent of Barak Obama and virtually the entire mainstream black community nowadays? How about the ways Barak Obama and the black mainstream tries to completely erase the influences of and ties to the Black Muslim community in the US?

Political expedience.