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46 years ago today
Posted on 4/4/14 at 11:52 am
Posted on 4/4/14 at 11:52 am
Reverend MLK, Jr. gunned down in Memphis.
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Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:01 pm to Godfather1
Prayers sent
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:06 pm to upgrayedd
I wonder what MLK would say about a President who's character cannot be questioned simply because of the color of his skin?
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:07 pm to Godfather1
How different would the civil rights advancements have been in that amount of time without the likes of Jessie and many others in control of it?
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:32 pm to navy
Here's more food for thought- I wonder what he would think about the Democrats now putting out the propaganda that they were behind the civil rights push.
How many people think MLK was a Democrat?
How many people think MLK was a Democrat?
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:37 pm to Godfather1
For you younger folks who weren't there at the time...for at least 10 years after the assassination there were a bunch of black activists who insisted that James Earl Ray did not kill MLK. The claim was that he was the dupe fall guy picked to cover for the real assassins ... the CIA.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:40 pm to Godfather1
Posted on 4/4/14 at 12:43 pm to Ace Midnight
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Ace Midnight
your sig and avy give some things away about you....
Posted on 4/4/14 at 1:05 pm to Godfather1
I remember it well.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 1:18 pm to dantes69
George D'Artois fitted his police cars with wooden battering rams for the expected riots in Shreveport.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 2:28 pm to navy
quote:
I wonder what MLK would say about a President who's character cannot be questioned simply because of the color of his skin?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Angry White Guys would see this thread as nothing more than an opportuntiy to vent.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 2:33 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Here's more food for thought- I wonder what he would think about the Democrats now putting out the propaganda that they were behind the civil rights push.
LBJ was a Democrat, that's not propaganda, it's fact.
quote:
How many people think MLK was a Democrat?
I know that MLK, Sr. was a Republican but I'm not sure what MLK, Jr was, not that it matters in the overall scheme of things. FYI, both of them campaigned for Democratic Presidential nominees in 1960 and 1964.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 2:58 pm to trackfan
quote:Outside factors.
FYI, both of them campaigned for Democratic Presidential nominees in 1960 and 1964.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:17 pm to trackfan
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I know that MLK, Sr. was a Republican but I'm not sure what MLK, Jr was, not that it matters in the overall scheme of things. FYI, both of them campaigned for Democratic Presidential nominees in 1960 and 1964.
trackfan, I agree with you. This whole idea of party affiliation through history is misleading. MLK was a Leftist. Today he would be a Democrat. His dad would be a Democrat. His children are all Democrats.
MLK was very much in favor of big govt and redistribution of wealth. He was also not very popular among blacks at the time of his death. That was the era black separatism. Very radical times.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:34 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:40 pm to trackfan
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Angry White Guys would see this thread as nothing more than an opportuntiy to vent.
I wasn't venting. I was being serious. Thanks for your concern, though.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:16 pm to trackfan
LBJ got behind it as a means of utilizing the legacy of JFKs memory as a political tool for the Dems especially with regards to Congress and the assumed re-election bid in '68 before the rug got yanked from beneath him by Cronkite.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:34 pm to CITWTT
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before the rug got yanked from beneath him by McNamara.
fixed.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:46 pm to trackfan
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Angry White Guys would see this thread as nothing more than an opportunity to vent.
Angry that ignorance voted in a man, based on his color, who is painfully and obviously unqualified for the office he holds? Twice?
oh and fixed your spelling error too.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:48 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Life just released these amazing new photos that were taken just after the MLK assassination.
Some of them are pretty brutal to look at though.
Some of them are pretty brutal to look at though.
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