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See also:

Bush: My Quotas are Better Than Yours!

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[Poohbah]

Please remove me from your ping list.

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[basil]

I don't care if MLK is responsible for affirmative action being in place today. It is still racism!

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[dead]

Who cares? The guy's been dead for thirty-five years.

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[axxmann]

Yup...I knew he was a racist. Thanks for the confirmation.

[Red Jones]

thanks for showing us this article. I remember reading about memos that MLK wrote to Jese Jackson. These were memos internal to MLK's organization. Jackson had been promoting race quotas and MLK was slapping him down and saying 'no' to that idea at that time. So, I think that MLK said a little bit different things at different times on this issue. And he slapped Jesse down partly because he just plain didn't like Jesse. I bet if he'd lived he'd have been pro-affirmative action. Even if he was pro color-blind he'd have migrated on that issue like the rest of the civil rights movement did.

[Mike Darancette]

NewsFlash! Attention Neo-Conservatives: Martin Luther King Supported Affirmative Action.

But does he support it now? Fourty years is a long time, and things and people change.

[sneakypete]

You mean this criminal,whore monger,and communist liar whose goal was to destroy America and our Constitution supported affirmative action? I'm shocked,SHOCKED,I TELL YA!

[Eva]

I supported affirmative action in college admissions in the '60s also, but that was then and this is now. I was part of a student advisory committee at Temple to make suggestions on how to get more Blacks into graduate schools. But, times have changed and the necessity to make concessions because of race has changed too. In the past 40 years, with supposedly equal opportunity to public school education, all races should have equal opportunity.
Whose fault is it if the inner city public schools are failing Black kids? Chances are those same schools aren't doing much for white students either. It's not skin color, it's the school system that is holding kids back from success.

[Pelham]

Attention Neo-Conservatives: Martin Luther King Supported Affirmative Action

You mean this isn't why neoconservatives worship him...?