{"id":480,"date":"2019-09-04T00:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T04:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=480"},"modified":"2019-09-04T00:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T04:14:45","slug":"on-king-as-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/04\/on-king-as-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"On King as a Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The way Clayborne sets the background for king as a myth and legend, even though Dr. King has only been dead for a short time is really intriguing to me. He argues that this is extremely wrong to do. It reminds me of a book I am currently reading entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lies My Teacher Told Me<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By James W. Lowen. The book discusses how hero-fication of Leaders like King and George Washington white wash them to the point where in most cases their flaws are hidden, but in Kings case a large portion of who he was and how he went about the reform. It was peaceful, yes, but also forceful and his Hero-fication undermines a lot of those qualities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clayborne also suggests that King is only perceived as such a great leader because he was in the right place at the right time. He specifically notes that the Civil Rights movement had many leaders long before King took the spotlight, people like E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks, Clayborne continues down this path and openly says that the movement would have continued no matter if King had lived or not. This is a weird thought to me, but it made me realize that we as humans put almost too much faith in the great leaders of our time and giving them the credit all to them when in reality the public should get a majority of the credit for actually \u201cmoving the machine\u201d so to speak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way Clayborne sets the background for king as a myth and legend, even though Dr. King has only been dead for a short time&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/04\/on-king-as-a-leader\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On King as a Leader<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}