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[EffieBlack]

Funny thing - I think many of these names are familiar to most of the people here, but many of them seem to have an incredible shallow understanding about the people behind them. All too often, we keep seeing these icons reduced to one-dimensional stereotypes ("Martin Luther King, the leader of the civil rights movement, had a dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin so any black person who ever mentions race is being disloyal to Dr. King and his dream") or they are attacked in the most mean-spirited ways and accused of being sell-outs, jokers, or worse if they have the temerity to say something with which any of the so-called civil rights experts who don't have a clue about civil rights happens to disagree.

It's going to take more than a few posts on DU to educate some folks. It's quite sad.