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Regarding MLK, forget about 200 years, try two millennia. Try two millennia without documentation and largely via word of mouth. People would, via context, determine that there was no way he was that tolerant and inclusive. There would be the "historical MLK."And yet the distance of time's passing often lends a certain romanticism -- look at how we remember the Trojan War, or the founding of Rome.
there's a big difference between movements, events and individuals. People tend to romanticize movements and realize individuals.