• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah I remember reading that in college. He wasn’t the bland platitudes guy high schools teach.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      He was also assassinated right after he started pivoting from civil rights to economic inequality (starting the Poor People’s Campaign). Funny coincidence, that.

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        8 months ago

        If it were today, he would’ve “commited suicide” with a shot to the back of the head.