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My mom remembers the 1968 MLK riots in Chicago. She was walking down Chicago Ave and they started throwing rocks and her and her sister in law shouting, this is our neighborhood now!
1 posted on 04/04/2024 12:39:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

F off - DIE IS racism.


2 posted on 04/04/2024 12:41:24 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I skimmed the article. This guy sounds like a racist. We don’t need people like him.


3 posted on 04/04/2024 12:43:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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The 1960s were the beginning of the end for America, when political assassinations and the deep state were normalized, JFK, MLK, and RFK were all killed by what I believe was power that actually runs this country

Throw in people like George Wallace that was nearly assassinated and since that time we’ve colla


4 posted on 04/04/2024 12:44:27 PM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
...it's time that we as a nation be the wolf of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. That we feed the wolf of peace and justice and equity; that we make real the promises of democracy.

As many here no doubt recall, democracy is best described as two wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu.

7 posted on 04/04/2024 1:13:12 PM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4030432/posts?page=19#19
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10125-10133.pdf

SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.,
A CURRENT ANALYSIS

DATE: MARCH 12, 1968

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTIONS 1

Washington Spring Project 1
Black Nationalist Terror 2
Strong Communist Influence 3
Explosive Situation 3

II. FORMATION OF SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 4


9 posted on 04/04/2024 1:45:55 PM PDT by Haddit
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Hi! I’m Cheyanne, The Hill’s race and politics reporter

or maybe "Rassen-politischen"

Sounds better in the original German.

12 posted on 04/04/2024 1:50:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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I was 13 and not three miles away from the 1967 Detroit race riots.

I left that stinkin’ city and state in 1972 and never looked back.


13 posted on 04/04/2024 1:51:26 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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I’ll never forget April 4,1968. I heard the news and rushed from my dorm at Howard University to Georgia Avenue- the main thoroughfare, to see what was going on. I remember the shock at seeing everything down that street - ablaze! I remember going closer and being surrounded by throngs of looters that were angry. One touching moment was when a Mom tugged at her son’s shirt begging him not to go in a store. He told her he was going in there for her! It was wrong. It was misguided but there was such a force of anger that fueled the violence that occurred that night that honestly equated to them being out of control due to the manifestation of heartbreak. Our leader was murdered!
That moment was different from current Antifa “fake riots” we see today. I just wish the anger from ‘68 could have been harnessed to seek change and to get us where many Blacks ( at least 20%) are now- wanting to work within the political system to make this country great again!


17 posted on 04/04/2024 2:15:35 PM PDT by Eurydice
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I’ll never forget April 4,1968. I heard the news and rushed from my dorm at Howard University to Georgia Avenue- the main thoroughfare, to see what was going on. I remember the shock at seeing everything down that street - ablaze! I remember going closer and being surrounded by throngs of looters that were angry. One touching moment was when a Mom tugged at her son’s shirt begging him not to go in a store. He told her he was going in there for her! It was wrong. It was misguided but there was such a force of anger that fueled the violence that occurred that night that honestly equated to them being out of control due to the manifestation of heartbreak. Our leader was murdered!
That moment was different from current Antifa “fake riots” we see today. I just wish the anger from ‘68 could have been harnessed to seek change and to get us where many Blacks ( at least 20%) are now- wanting to work within the political system to make this country great again!


18 posted on 04/04/2024 2:15:49 PM PDT by Eurydice
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I remember two signs that went up on homes back then.
SOUL BROTHER
and
“THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED.” (This one did not stay up long as during the riots people fled to gun stores only to find the 1968 Gun Control Law had been passed.)


21 posted on 04/04/2024 5:11:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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