@Lash,
I don't play word games-that's your thing. Because, God knows, you sure don't have any ability to seek out FACTS from anywhere but partisan websites, where the author prescreens them to support his/her theme. You have never looked up a fact on its own in the time I've known you.
Martin Luther King was not talking about incrementalism, as you constantly say, he was against the fact that there was
no real progress at all locally in the fields of civil rights, and these "moderates", (who claim to be on the black man's side), had the nerve to join in with the segregationists in demanding that King leave Birmingham because he was an "outside agitator" and leave the local people to deal with the civil right problems-after they had accomplished absolutely nothing in that direction before King got there.
As King said in Letter From Birmingham Jail, in previous years the local black leaders had talked to the white business community about taking down signs that said No Blacks Allowed. The white business community agreed, but after the agreement only a minority of the white business owners did so, and as time passed, most of those who did take down the signs at first put them back up. That was the sum total of the progress the local leaders had made in Birmingham. Small wonder that in their letter telling people not to support King and his demonstrations, the white clergymen were down to having to point out that at least the local police did not beat the demonstrators like the cops did in other Southern cities. That was these white clergymens' idea of "progress".
Martin Luther King's Birmingham Jail letter was not opposed to making progress in increments, it was opposed to people to who don't make any progress at all and then side with the opponent in demanding those who come to make real change must leave.
You, on the other hand, distort King's position from the Birmingham Jail letter to say that the Clintons were somehow comparable to these white "moderate" clergymen demanding King leave Birmingham. Looking at Clinton's record,though, we find:
1. Defended affirmative action in court against the onslaught of the conservatives, despite the opposition's attempt to defeat Clinton in 1996 over it,
2. Not only prevented the mighty rising tide of black murders from continuing, but actually CUT them by over 30%
3. Ran the economy so well that 2 Million Full Time jobs were created yearly, during which time all races total increased their Full Time jobs 16%, (which is good), and blacks increased their Full Time jobs 30%, (which is great).
4. In an era where people were talking about the middle class losing ground, during the Clinton years all races total increased their inflation-adjusted weekly pay by over 6%, and blacks increased it by over 8%.
I think it's a shame American youth is being taught about Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail from someone like yourself who clearly is uncomfortable with the very concept of facts and too politically opinionated to even let it bother her.