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In reply to the discussion: "The United States is the LEAST racist nation on Earth." [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,775 posts)And point blank: they didn't need an MLK. Think of the soldiers that stayed - treated like grown men for the first time in their lives. My older Uncle was sent to England in the 1960's and my younger Uncle to France.
My dad was playing war games. My grandfather sent his hot heads away to Europe to get them the hell out of America in the MLK days.
Ooohhh the irony Number23 - wasn't it just this past August that we learned from our fellow DUers that MLK really "wasn't all about black rights in America" and instead all about white working class people. That he wasn't race based?
Which is it? They can't have it both ways. They can either white wash him or leave him as is - but they can't have it both ways as fas as I'm concerned. What says you?