[rdb3]

King as America's Ghandi? That's an apt analogy.

I say that while disagreeing with King's politics outside of making America live up to her own ideals. This comes from studying this history, of course, since I was born three and a half years after his death.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
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[AppyPappy]

We talked about MLK in Sunday School (I teach Sr Highs). It was very difficult to explain Jim Crow to 16 year olds. They have no frame of reference. We had to explain it as the power of large groups(white Southerners) to do stupid things perpetually. They want to know who thought of it and why and why black people just didn't ignore it while demanding equality. "Why didn't the black people just ignore the sign and go in anyway? If the white people beat them up, why didn't they call the police?". They could not comprehend that the government supported Jim Crow.