Stein, Sarandon, Cornel West and their ilk own this.

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228. Ignore the question all you want.

You did not explain social justice.

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Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

One quote keeps getting posted here over and over. It is one quote, not Martin Luther Kings Life Work.

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by Hamden Rice

Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

The topic at hand is what Martin Luther King actually did, what it was that he actually accomplished.

What most people who reference Dr. King seem not to know is how Dr. King actually changed the subjective experience of life in the United States for African Americans. And yeah, I said for African Americans, not for Americans, because his main impact was his effect on the lives of African Americans, not on Americans in general. His main impact was not to make white people nicer or fairer. That's why some of us who are African Americans get a bit possessive about his legacy. Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy, despite what our civil religion tells us, is not color blind.

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My father told me with a sort of cold fury, "Dr. King ended the terror of living in the south."

Please let this sink in and and take my word and the word of my late father on this. If you are a white person who has always lived in the U.S. and never under a brutal dictatorship, you probably don't know what my father was talking about.

But this is what the great Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished. Not that he marched, nor that he gave speeches.

He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south.

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****We keep being told it is about the economy. It is not. It is about Black Lives Matter. It is about the beatings and the lynchings. Trials for 'Reckless Eyeballing' ****

I know you are well aware of this. I wanted to post it again.

Black Lives Matter.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=18885

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Hey SMC. I am not playing silly little ranking games, you are. Sorry that you crap on Dems so much. Me, I am proud of my party and Martin standing for social issues for people of color.

"But this is what the great Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished. Not that he marched, nor that he gave speeches.
He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south."