 The subtext of these articles is that if Dr. King were alive today, he would support the policies and the rhetoric advanced by today's anti-racist radicals. People like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. King's legacy, they argue, has been sanitized, co-opted, and weaponized by conservatives and moderates. Hughes continues, this argument relies on a bait and switch. The areas in which Dr. King could rightfully be called a radical are twofold.