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limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts) Sun Apr 14, 2013, 08:47 PM Apr 2013

MLK's Fight for Economic Equality

Published on Apr 5, 2013
Theologian James Cone and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King's vision of economic justice in addition to racial equality, and why so little has changed for America's most oppressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=rF8OpSwU5AI

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MLK's Fight for Economic Equality (Original Post) limpyhobbler Apr 2013 OP

K&R Teamster Jeff Apr 2013 #1

Having the courage to address this subject was probably what ultimately cost him his life We People Apr 2013 #2

Teamster Jeff

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1. K&R

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Sun Apr 14, 2013, 08:53 PM

Apr 2013

We People

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2. Having the courage to address this subject was probably what ultimately cost him his life

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:15 PM

Apr 2013

Corporations, Wall Street, and The Powers That Be are still threatened by the thought of Economic Justice, and they will do whatever they can to eliminate that threat.

If only for that reason, the death of this great man of vision is still an immense tragedy.

Thanks for posting this.

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