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Originally posted by hiredgun
That was so unnecessary.
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Politically it is necessary.
If MLK wasn't shot but instead died of a heart attack 10 years later, we wouldn't be celebrating his birthday today. It seems it takes a death, at the height of your popularity, for your cause to raise you to a great status.
Kennedy wasn't that great a president, but he became a symbol after his assassination.
MLK had his problems too, but again, with his death the man became unimportant to the message.
A lot of politics is the manipulation of emotions and ideas, sometimes purposefully sometimes coincidentally, but you need to be aware of it.