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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

"Martin Luther King’s hate mail eerily resembles criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement"

Indeed, this type of discourse is nothing new, as we can see when we examine the hate mail that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It’s overwhelming how the fear of the status quo being changed has been something white America can’t stop thinking about–and loudly announcing how it’s a problem–for so long now. These messages could have been written yesterday in the comments of a Facebook post as easily as they were on stationery or in a telegram 50 years ago.
Anonymity was key, of course.
Letters to MLK
"Nothing has changed except the technology", and NO, Mike Huckabee, MLK would NOT be "appalled by Black Lives Matter", he would be appalled anyone is listening to anything you have to say about  Black Lives Matter.   "What MLK Would be appalled at is the hideous racism that the Republican Party embraces against black Americans and Hispanics in this country." 

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