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In reply to the discussion: Imagine how stupid you're going to look..... [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)57. And yet the background to the SCLC was race riots, five days worth in Washington DC alone..
Black Americans were indeed expressing their anger in that time period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Washington,_D.C._riots
Crowds of as many as 20,000 overwhelmed the District's 3,100-member police force, and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dispatched some 13,600 federal troops, including 1,750 federalized D.C. National Guard troops to assist them. Marines mounted machine guns on the steps of the Capitol and Army troops from the 3rd Infantry guarded the White House. At one point, on April 5, rioting reached within two blocks of the White House before rioters retreated. The occupation of Washington was the largest of any American city since the Civil War. By the time the city was considered pacified on Sunday, April 8, twelve had been killed (mostly in burning homes), 1,097 injured, and over 6,100 arrested. Additionally, some 1,200 buildings had been burned, including over 900 stores. Damages reached $27 million. This can be estimated to be equivalent to over $156 million today.
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Imagine how stupid you are going to look when you go to the doctor for high cholesterol from
jillan
Aug 2012
#2
conservatives in 40 years will just claim they were the ones really in favor of gay marriage
michael811
Aug 2012
#7
I actually had someone tell me Dan Cathy was "a small businessman" yesterday..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#12
It takes a level of intelligence to recognize when its time to be embarrassed.
jerseyjack
Aug 2012
#15
Horizontal stripes - they didn't get out of the house without looking willfully ignorant. nt
DCKit
Aug 2012
#19
Minor detail, but the people in the second picture aren't already too fat to be eating there.
HopeHoops
Aug 2012
#25
Yes, orchestrated by the right wing churches, and the inducement is eternal wealth.
yardwork
Aug 2012
#74
"Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." -MLK Jr..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#39
As I pointed out earlier, MLK had Malcolm X and other even more radical blacks behind him..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#48
And yet the background to the SCLC was race riots, five days worth in Washington DC alone..
Fumesucker
Aug 2012
#57
Let me get this right... you're saying that MLK opposed boycotts. That he opposed calling racists
MNBrewer
Aug 2012
#81
You say that the LGBT community "gets officials and politicians to act against him"
MNBrewer
Aug 2012
#85
The bus boycott, the Albany movement, the lunch counter sit-ins, the "occupying" of substandard
Luminous Animal
Aug 2012
#50
And yet the only party to this whole story that actually IS discriminated against
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#72