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Well done Florida!![/quote]

You are probably the same person who would scream about Campus Free Expression. All of those subjects are discussed in the Black community. The class is about the discussion, not indocrination.[/quote]

The controversial-and-now-optional subjects are not Black issues, they are progressive issues.  It's a bit insulting to tack them onto an AA Studies class, tbh.  [/quote]

You sound like the whites who only want to quote MLK’s “content of their character” and never his take on poverty, his Poor People’s Campaign, or his chiding of white moderates. [/quote]

I am a white person who proudly honors MLK for his fight against racial discrimination, but not for all of his opinions.

Similarly, I honor Thomas Jefferson for his help in creating a nation dedicated to religious freedom and freedom of the press and of speech.      I don't honor him for all his opinions -- and in particular not for his justification for enslaving 600 people during his lifetime.

Now I do think that, for example, MLK's arguments against the Vietnam war were -- and remain -- very cogent.         But this is not why I honor him on MLK day.     I honor him for making the words in the Declaration "all men are created equal" have real meaning.        [/quote]

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