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HassleCat

(6,409 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2017, 07:46 PM Jan 2017

It would be nice to think about MLK today.

The pace of progress on race relations was pretty rapid years ago, but we seem to have slowed down in recent years. I sometimes hear people say that we have turned the tables, that black Americans now enjoy more rights and privileges than white people. I know a couple people who voted for Trump for this very reason, because they saw black gains as their losses. Zero sum thinking. They wonder why black Americans have their own holiday, and they don't. And so on.

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It would be nice to think about MLK today. (Original Post) HassleCat Jan 2017 OP

He was one of the greatest men to ever live. John Lewis isnt far behind in that. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

True shenmue Jan 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

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1. He was one of the greatest men to ever live. John Lewis isnt far behind in that.

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Mon Jan 16, 2017, 08:03 PM

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shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. True

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Mon Jan 16, 2017, 08:05 PM

Jan 2017

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