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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Lyndon Johnson Responded To Baltimore’s Last Riots
What did you expect? I dont know why were so surprised. When you put your foot on a mans neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, whats he going to do? Hes going to knock your block off.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/28/3652006/baltimore-race-riots-1968/
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How Lyndon Johnson Responded To Baltimore’s Last Riots (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2015
OP
That's a real Liberal. I'm shocked at the responses on this board. Thank you.
libdem4life
Apr 2015
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)1. LBJ had such a regular man's way of looking at things.
Love it.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2. That's a real Liberal. I'm shocked at the responses on this board. Thank you.
G_j
(40,366 posts)3. couldn't have said it better
that's just common sense
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)4. they dismantled his Great Society and we have gone downhill ever since.