I think we also shouldn't sell the nonviolence short. It wasn't merely nonviolence. It was subjecting yourself openly to state violence and not resisting. It was letting the brutality of the state be made manifest as it washed over you. As the cops abused and beat people who were not responding even remotely in kind.

That was part of Malcolm's moral clarity, though in the alternative. He suggested it was immoral to subject yourself or people you loved to such an exercise, tantamount to one of self immolation.

Malcolm X essentially advocated a system of sovereignty not unlike the American founders, who of course were violent, not nonviolent.

In that way MLK JR really was America's Christ. He was willing to be nailed to the cross if it meant bending the arc towards justice.