Martin Luther King’s hate mail eerily resembles criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement

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38. That is a wonderful quote.

My PhDed friend just mentioned to me last night that it was sort of sad that the Black Lives Matter people tried to tie up the shopping district of Chicago, as after all, there are "other ways to get what they want to happen." (We are both born and raised Chicagoans, though I live in Calif. now.)

I wish I had thought to ask her just how the African American community can get things to happen other than taking to the street in protest.

And it was a peaceful protest to boot - so I don't see what the problem was. If the stores suffered, then too bad.

But people are killed by Chicago cops all the time. And not just people of color suffer - when I moved to Calif in the 1980's I was relieved that if out in San Francisco Bay area at night, I wouldn't be forced out of my car and molested if found driving in the wee hours of the Am, as was happening to young attractive women all the time in the Windy City environs. I was startled to find out that according to other DU'ers, this molestation activity was still rampant among the police force in Chicago all through the 2000's as well!