Four ways Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to battle inequality

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153. Maybe it's a function of age. Everyone I knew realized those were black sanitation workers, everyone

It was all about color. All of it.

I don't know how anyone misses this - guess it's the advantage of being alive and aware then. It clarifies the whitewashing now.

No group has pushed for civil rights and equality more than AAs, because equality was survival. Slavery of the sort they endured and which has not been reimbursed - is more to confront than 'immigrants took my job,' low wages, no bennies, long hours and all of tha.

Also affords one the luxury of quoting philosophers in societies built upon slave labor, as if they were the last word. Marx and his friends had the time to meet up and discuss heady matters while they were being financially supported. Marx himself had a wife who was a cleaning woman and supported him. He didn't bother to talk about her needs. How many others refuse to give credit to those who serve them in reality?

Until someone grasps that lack of racial equality has been a deadly thing in this country, they just don't get it. They haven't the need ot address this maddening social construct that confines those who are not white males.

Thus can remain cocooned and clueless and scamper through life with less stress. No wonder they play willfully ignorant. They are allowed to be children.