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donco6
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Thu Oct-26-06 02:46 PM
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I mean, to think that MLK got people motivated based on some great tactical reasoning or his sense of political timing is preposterous. He got people excited because what he said so resonated in their SOUL that they couldn't help themselves. They looked down at their feet and found them marching to Selma or Birmingham.
I can't think of someone more absolutist than MLK - his whole message was: Discrimination Against Blacks is WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Not sorta wrong. Kinda wrong. It's IMMORAL! It's BLASPHEMOUS! He said it over and over again, just in different ways. But it was no less absolutist than our claim that discrimination against gays is WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Grrr. These threads just get me steamed.
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