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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,307 posts) Tue Apr 28, 2015, 10:33 PM Apr 2015

How Lyndon Johnson Responded To Baltimore’s Last Riots [View all]

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 [View all] 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