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Thu Jan-31-08 12:53 PM
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15. That was his ideal -- It was definitely not what he saw as the reality.

He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" – including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow…

King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.

Does that sound like someone who believed that the current reality was "one America"?

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