From a Medium article by Andre Henry: In his final book, Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. issues a sobering appraisal of American politics that could’ve been written just after the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. King employs an entire chapter to describe “a new wave of white resistance” to racial progress triggered by the Civil Rights Movement, but he doesn’t describe that resistance in terms of lynchings, bombings, and burnings of vigilante white terror groups like one might expect. Instead, he writes mostly about the Supreme Court’s “Pupil Placement Decision,” which undermined school desegregation laws by empowering the state legislatures to decide where to place students based on things like family background or special ability. This white backlash caused King to conclude a constituency of white Americans “have declared that democracy isn’t worth having if it involves equality.” He continues: “The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms with the reestablishment of naked oppression and if need be a native form of fascism.”