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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1387097" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Hoover was a close-minded bigot.</p><p></p><p>I am not.</p><p></p><p>I admire MLK; but as far as Al Sharpton goes, he couldn't carry MLK's jock strap.</p><p></p><p>Racism still exists but it isn't accurate to compare today's struggle with the struggle that took place in the 50's and 60's. Segregation is illegal. Today we have black cops and black reporters and black politicians and almost everybody has a smart phone that can record movies. There is a lot more transparency, and overt racism is totally unacceptable to the mainstream media.</p><p></p><p>The black people that marched and sat in at segregated lunch counters back in the 60's knew that they would be arrested by an all-white police force and were facing the threat of being beaten or lynched by Klan members and sympathizers within the police force. <em>They were risking their lives</em>. They had hoses and dogs unleashed on them. That isn't what is happening today. I watched the news and saw the captain of the Missouri Highway Patrol, a black man, walking the streets and talking to protesters. You wouldn't have seen that in the 60's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1387097, member: 14668"] Hoover was a close-minded bigot. I am not. I admire MLK; but as far as Al Sharpton goes, he couldn't carry MLK's jock strap. Racism still exists but it isn't accurate to compare today's struggle with the struggle that took place in the 50's and 60's. Segregation is illegal. Today we have black cops and black reporters and black politicians and almost everybody has a smart phone that can record movies. There is a lot more transparency, and overt racism is totally unacceptable to the mainstream media. The black people that marched and sat in at segregated lunch counters back in the 60's knew that they would be arrested by an all-white police force and were facing the threat of being beaten or lynched by Klan members and sympathizers within the police force. [I]They were risking their lives[/I]. They had hoses and dogs unleashed on them. That isn't what is happening today. I watched the news and saw the captain of the Missouri Highway Patrol, a black man, walking the streets and talking to protesters. You wouldn't have seen that in the 60's. [/QUOTE]
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