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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There will be speeches by all the presidential hopefuls. The media will say that Obama has an edge because he’s black and ignore the race baiting by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and well the outright racism from the McCain camp.
In my daughter’s school there will be a lesson on how thanks to Dr. King the white students and students of color can be in the same classroom and then the ESL students will be taken out of the class and miss important information being taught from 15 year old textbooks.

We’ve come a long way huh?

I was listening to some of Dr. King’s speeches this morning (WBAI 99.5 in NYC has an all day special) and listening to the speechs and comparing then to the truthful words of Jeremiah Wright, make Wright sound like, well, nothing to worry about.

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