Originally Posted by
Vic Vega
It sounds good on the surface but breaks down went you think about it for any length of time. But this is comics, so nobody was thinking about it for any length of time. Most comic tropes fall apart the instant you thing about them. The closest thing to a real world analogue to the insurrestionist Brotherhood in the 60's would have been the Weather Underground, not the Nation.
But long as the writers, editors and readers can feel like the material is more weighty than it really is, the goofy metaphor is useful for them.
It doesn't help any that the Average American doesn't even understand what MLK stood for (let alone Malcom) to being with. They seem to think that he gave the "I have a dream" speech and that was all he ever did.