MLK Day - Was the Man Flawless or Clawless?

According to analysis today on NPR the upshot regarding MLK falls along these racial lines:

• Whites - wanted him Clawless - made impotent, and  to ignore the complicity of white America to his assassination. FBI had labeled him a threat to America. Lost popularity after criticizing the Vietnam war.
• Blacks - wanted to raise him to sainthood, Flawless - ignoring his affairs and human foibles.

As reported he was not a serene man - instead a tortured soul haunted by his own failings but still working for freedom and justice for all of us! He experienced love in all it's forms: Eros, Philos and Agape. A mighty mountain shines brightly in the light while still casting a huge shadow.

None of this invalidates his work or message but instead affirms that all of us (as human beings) are capable of taking on the yoke he so nobly wore.

A personal observation - we are all in this together.  A homily from two Christmas's ago rings in my ears: (forgive and bear with my paraphrasing:) "...as far as we know no one is actually in hell and we all will have to go to heaven together."