"I lost a friend. I lost a great brother. I lost my leader. If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King Jr., I don't know what would have happened to our nation," Rep. John Lewis says, remembering the day King was assassinated https://cbsn.ws/2Gwvg86 #MLK50pic.twitter.com/Htpa4NW7Jf
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"If Robert Kennedy was here, if Dr. King was here, they would say love each other. And never hate, for hate is too heavy a burden to bear," Rep. John Lewis says https://cbsn.ws/2Gwvg86
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MLK would want nothing to do with the likes of Lewis. It is a sad day.
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They were literally friends.
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MLK brought out the best in people. He inspired like no one we had ever seen on the American Scene. Many after his assassination slowly dissipated into the establishment--our leader & inspiration was gone.
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I did not realize he was standing on a table!
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Hey, thats a picnic stage
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Haha that is a good name for it.
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Why is the black popluation worse off than under segregation during the 60's?
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We definitely are not worse.
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Oh yes you are.
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How are you telling me lol do you live here? It may be bad but I have more access to public services and less outright discrimination exists. Most people acknowledge racism as wrong.
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The FBI crime statistics, the black unemployment rate, which actually was worse under Obama and has been the lowest since Trump came into office, illegitamcy rate, black anger against the white man despite all of these problems are the fault of black people, not whites.
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I have a feeling you won't listening to anything I say, but first of all you can't really judge how a community is doing solely by statistics. With that said, the black unemployment rate has been steadily going down for years, even under the Obama administration.
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Not everyone's problems are caused by white people, no, but nearly every problem that the black community faces today can be traced back to racism.
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The legacy of red lining has severely damaged the black community, black people are still routinely denied housing loans making it harder to purchase a home. The home is the greatest source of wealth in the United States and the lack of homeownership shows, the average wealth of
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