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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,470 posts) Tue Apr 28, 2015, 10:33 PM Apr 2015

How Lyndon Johnson Responded To Baltimore’s Last Riots

What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/28/3652006/baltimore-race-riots-1968/

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How Lyndon Johnson Responded To Baltimore’s Last Riots (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 OP

LBJ had such a regular man's way of looking at things. Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #1

That's a real Liberal. I'm shocked at the responses on this board. Thank you. libdem4life Apr 2015 #2

couldn't have said it better G_j Apr 2015 #3

they dismantled his Great Society and we have gone downhill ever since. roguevalley Apr 2015 #4

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)

1. LBJ had such a regular man's way of looking at things.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 10:36 PM

Apr 2015

Love it.

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)

2. That's a real Liberal. I'm shocked at the responses on this board. Thank you.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:08 PM

Apr 2015

G_j

(40,570 posts)

3. couldn't have said it better

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:14 PM

Apr 2015

that's just common sense

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

4. they dismantled his Great Society and we have gone downhill ever since.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:34 PM

Apr 2015

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