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This is how MLK was depicted in 1967 to scare white Americans [View all] tenderfoot Aug 2020 OP
Yup. Blame the victims! lunatica Aug 2020 #1
Apparently some things never change PatSeg Aug 2020 #13
Holy crap, is that Herblock ?!? Say it ain't so !! nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #2
The style is eerily similar, but mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 #3
Oh, blessed relief ! :) Of course cartoonists tended to draw in the same style back then, but ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2020 #5
I thought it was Herblock too, but BKDem Aug 2020 #4
The signature says "Brooks." johnp3907 Aug 2020 #15
Charles Brooks, noted anti-KKKlanner Celerity Aug 2020 #21
This is important to remember when people insist "You should be more like Martin Luther King StarfishSaver Aug 2020 #6
And a white man killed MLK, do not look past that fact irisblue Aug 2020 #9
Yup. I can't name a black assasin, except the DC sniper? I'm sure there are others, but almost all Evolve Dammit Aug 2020 #17
We have our own version nowadays... Archae Aug 2020 #7
Year pass, very little changes Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #8
The majority of Americans disapproved of him at the time of his assassination. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #10
The majority of Americans back then were White. Tommymac Aug 2020 #11
Whites are still a majority but not as high as back then and it's going down JI7 Aug 2020 #19
The percentage of the population that is Black is about the same now as it was in 1970. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #26
Really? lunatica Aug 2020 #20
More than two-thirds of America as a whole disapproved of King in 1967. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #24
Meaning what? tenderfoot Aug 2020 #27
Meaning they didn't need a cartoon to turn the tide against him. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2020 #28
That looks like a Herblock cartoon. bluescribbler Aug 2020 #12
Charles Brooks Birmingham News. Sneederbunk Aug 2020 #22
Yep. Some things never seem to change. paleotn Aug 2020 #14
Thank you so much for sharing this post!! 👍 Person of Interest Aug 2020 #16
One of my, very few, lifetime heroes. warmfeet Aug 2020 #18
I think I was 12 when the news hit Ligyron Aug 2020 #23
Yeah, I ran upstairs and told my parents that a king was shot and killed. warmfeet Aug 2020 #25
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