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6. Anyone that thinks that King didn't have his detractors is fooling themselves

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 06:12 PM

Jan 2013

The worship of him now almost completely obscures that he was considered Public Enemy Number 1 by large swaths of white people in his day.

I have no doubt that in 40 years, Saint Barack Obama will be used as a cudgel to bludgeon another black leader by either someone with no roots in the black community or no support from it.

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Dr Martin Luther King at the White House [View all] bigtree Jan 2013 OP

In the top photo, if Dr. King died April 4, 1968, why is it dated August 1968. Is that the mfcorey1 Jan 2013 #1

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Thank you, bigtree! Cha Jan 2013 #3

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Anyone that thinks that King didn't have his detractors is fooling themselves Number23 Jan 2013 #6