Jfc You try to invoke MLK to make your point and turn him into this caricature of a class-forster, like he'd scoff at "cultural issues" mattering But at the same time he was radicalizing re: economic issues he was ALSO radicalizing on "cultural issues"
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I mean you consider yourself a labor historian right His VP nomination was opposed by the whole "labor wing" of the Dems, AFL-CIO President George Meany called him "the arch-foe of labor", he spent his whole early career trying to expand Taft-Hartley
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You think the Vietnam War was bad, right? You agree with MLK that it was a grave injustice and that the specific injustice of the draft fell more heavily on impoverished Black men than any other demographic? Look up the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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It’s pretty amazing he was able to hid his true feelings that well until 1964.
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