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Nevilledog

(51,198 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 07:53 PM Feb 2022

Tell me you don't know anything about MLK w/o telling me you don't know anything about MLK



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Molly Jong-Fast
@MollyJongFast
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Feb 15, 2022
Tell me you don’t know anything about Martin Luther King without telling me you don’t know anything about Martin Luther King

Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona
Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, on Canada PM Justin Trudeau invoking emergency powers to deal with the "Freedom Convoy" blockade:

"By this rationale, they could have cracked down on the Civil Rights movement. They could have arrested Martin Luther King."
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Fred Wellman
@FPWellman

I mean these guys love quoting the letter from Birmingham Jail every year but seem to miss it was from freaking jail!

4:41 PM · Feb 15, 2022
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Tell me you don't know anything about MLK w/o telling me you don't know anything about MLK (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP
My God! Did he miss the dogs and waterhoses, the police batons, the bombings, the LoisB Feb 2022 #1
That must some of that kinder, gentler "history" they want to hear. Solly Mack Feb 2022 #2

LoisB

(7,231 posts)
1. My God! Did he miss the dogs and waterhoses, the police batons, the bombings, the
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:26 PM
Feb 2022

assassinations, and ALL OF THE JAILINGS? If those weren't "crack downs", I don't know what to call them. I realize he is too young to have witnessed any of those things (even on television) but surely he has seen pictures and videos, read about them in books.

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