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1. I don't know. I don't think the KKK is the biggest stumbling block

Reply to gollygee (Original post)

Fri Nov 28, 2014, 10:19 AM

Nov 2014

it's vastly diminished since MLK made that remark, but I'm not sure how you even define a white moderate. I think the biggest stumbling block is institutional racism.

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. . . Not the Ku Klux Klan, but the white moderate [View all] gollygee Nov 2014 OP

I don't know. I don't think the KKK is the biggest stumbling block cali Nov 2014 #1

which is enforced and maintained gollygee Nov 2014 #2

How do white moderates enforce institutional racism? beyond that cali Nov 2014 #3

White moderates is another way of saying gollygee Nov 2014 #4

Here ... This might be helpful ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #6

A White Moderate is one so comfortable in their white privilege they project Half-Century Man Nov 2014 #17

I wish that great phrase, 'evil doesn't have to work that hard, if good is idle' could reach appalachiablue Nov 2014 #19

And yet in the context of the time, the KKK were perceived to be a greater stumbling block Gormy Cuss Nov 2014 #9

Thank you for the context of Dr. Kings words. antiquie Nov 2014 #15

King's words are more timeless than yours CreekDog Nov 2014 #18

By golly! JustAnotherGen Nov 2014 #5

Like the lyrics: freshwest Nov 2014 #7

""In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." . n/t ColesCountyDem Nov 2014 #8

Yup. m-lekktor Nov 2014 #10

This quote is a tiny smidgen of the 1963 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail,' and KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #11

Thanks for adding that!! n/t gollygee Nov 2014 #12

Much more powerful in context. tblue Nov 2014 #14

This applies accross the board, "moderates" aren't the solution... 99Forever Nov 2014 #13

yep stupidicus Nov 2014 #16