Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

Re: "The View From Room 306" by David Brooks (column, April 4):

While David Brooks does a characteristically lovely job of eulogizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. forty years after his death, I was forced to consider Mr. Brooks' more conservative political bent and just how difficult conservatives in particular made life for Dr. King. The Brooks perspective is historically accurate and his insights into Dr. King's final days are indeed moving at times, but which political party adopted the "Southern Strategy" of exploiting the growing rift between those who demanded civil rights and those who demanded a more southern brand of justice for the insurrectionists?

Paul R. Weeks

Staten Island, NY

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/opinion/04brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin