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Its important to remember that Martin Luther King Jr.s career did not end with I have a dream speech. He went on. He went on to extend his concerns and activism. And as he did, his popularity and reputation among northern liberal declined. He turned to protest against the Viet Nam war, correctly. He was assassinated when he was supporting the sanitary workers strike. And in fact, he was on his way to organize a poor peoples movement. By that time, he was reaching class issues, not just racist Alabama sherriffs. And, as he turned to those issues, his reputation declined. I suspect, if you listen to the speeches today, about Martin Luther King, you wont hear a lot about that aspect. -- Noam Chomsky
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:00:43 +0000

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