Posted on 01/23/2022 12:15:04 PM PST by Texas Fossil
He WAS a Republican who changed parties to Democrat so he could do his act at the White House. They would not let him perform as a Republican. Anyway, he’s dead. So is his “dream.”
He changed parties. Look it up.
I didn’t read the article. If something starts out lecturing me about ML King’s “dream” I cannot overcome my boredom and stop reading.
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That’s quite a DC story. Those of us who grew up in the area have similar tales of DC being like Anatefka to us. Or the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Camelot, even.
“That’s quite a DC story. Those of us who grew up in the area have similar tales of DC being like Anatefka to us. Or the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Camelot, even.”
None of the friends, whom, we met in the DC area and developed a good relationship stayed in the DC area. We were the first to pull the plug and leave.
One family did come back and then begged for active duty out of the states to avoid living there. Their 3 teen kids, then, now adults in their 50’s said the area had become a drug zone and hate America on the school campuses.
It took them about 2 decades to recover from about one year in the new DC area.
The DC area went downhill shortly after MLK was killed.
I remember it well. Generations of our family and large congregation (established in the 1830s) were uprooted and scattered in the decade that followed. But it was not the assassination alone that set off the explosion. It was earlier, when Truman and Eisenhower sought to extend full recognition to black WW2 soliders, which was only right, and Eisenhower introducing the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. The government civil service was declared open to employing blacks some time around 1948, and the area was immediately flooded with waves of migrants from the south seeking secure employment, for which I can't fault them, either.
Everyone thinks it's about race, but it wasn't. It was a clash of cultures and general education levels, and a pronounced difference in styles of interpersonal relations, such as differing customs of sexual morality.
As usual, the working class whites were the ones who had to surrender their neighborhoods, churches and gravesites, while the elites red-lined themselves into Chevy Chase, Georgetown, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean and Falls Church.
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