Why are leaders often embraced only after their death? HeroesToday explains.
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During the 19th century, Susan B. Anthony was reviled for promoting women’s suffrage, but now she's a cultural legend. Nelson Mandela fought for racial equality and was imprisoned for 27 years in South Africa before his country embraced him. In the early 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., was loathed by most of America for leading the civil rights movement, yet now we have a holiday honoring his accomplishments.
We're also witnessing a rise in public approval of Colin Kaepernick, who for years was widely condemned for kneeling during the playing of the American national anthem. Heroic lag seems to have run its course, as the NFL is now embracing Kaepernick. In a video released in June of 2020, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said:
Heroes are ahead of their time, and history has shown that almost all people ahead of their time are vilified, and sometimes even assassinated. The dark period of heroic lag cost the lives of Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It can take years, even generations, for the general public to catch up to the level of moral development of a heroic prophet.
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