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02-20-2021, 01:06 PM #13Veteran Poster
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I agree and disagree with this post. I completely and fully agree that people like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell are necessary in the teaching of black history. History MUST be taught in full, and to act like there weren't prominent, successful and important black conservatives is a disservice to everyone.
I disagree with what is taught in schools. I'm 27, so I was in school through the 90s and 2000s. I learned all about Plato, Da Vinci, and Edison. I learned nothing about black history besides MLK I had a dream, and that Rosa Parks at the front of the bus. That's it lol. Everything I've learned that actually meant something I've learned in my adult life.
Third, I also disagree/agree that MLK would be appalled. He would be saddened that the first black president continued along the white moderate path that has killed people for so long. He would be happy that democratic socialism is making a slow but sure comeback
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02-20-2021, 02:06 PM #14Veteran Poster
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It was the worst kept secret ever.
And his socialistic bent during the cold war wasn't exactly endearing.
Race riots were also quite common at the time.
And the prescribed methods under discussion for dealing with integrations issues (most notably busing) were wrongful and unpopular.
And there were plenty of holdover vestiges of "separate but equal" nonsense at the time.
These things I'm sure, combined to make King pretty unpopular in his day.
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02-20-2021, 02:07 PM #15Veteran Poster
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02-20-2021, 02:14 PM #16
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I don’t know what crappy school you attended but as a white kid growing up in the 80’s in the second whitest states in the country we learned far more than that... it probably wasn’t enough for SOME people’s standards but it was dramatically more than that.
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02-20-2021, 02:38 PM #17Veteran Poster
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02-20-2021, 02:41 PM #18Veteran Poster
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Crispus Attucks - famous for getting shot
Benjamin Banneker - Made Clocks and assisted Andrew Ellicott when he surveyed DC
George Washington Carver - Made stuff out of peanuts.
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Owens
Frederick Douglass
Etc..etc.. etc.. I got all this and more in the 70's
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02-20-2021, 02:56 PM #21Veteran Poster
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It's considered bad for to modify someone's words, so it appear that they said something that they didn't say.
I would say that the Civil Rights movement was pretty important...
But I'd place the The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence The American Revolution... The drafting of the Constitution... The Civil War... and a few other events at considerably greater significance.
And certainly King played his part as a religious figure in the movement.
But he also used his position of power to sexually exploit young girls...he engaged orgies somewhat routinely... made a mockery of his wedding vows, and was a socialist.
So I get back to the idea that he was a scummy person who happened to advocate a worthwhile Civil Rights cause.
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