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1. I was 15 when #DrKing was assassinated. I feared it was coming. He thought it was. 1968 was a terrible year. January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive put the war on the news in a way that made Vietnam no longer a policy choice for Americans. Russia and China had
2. what they needed: The US media pushing the narrative that led to the loss of Walter Cronkite and by March 31, 1968, the leader of the liberal advance of FDR’s New Deal into the Great Society, Lyndon Johnson, announced he would not run throwing the US politics
3. into even greater chaos. Somebody had to pay for the loss of American confidence in our decision to fight a civil war in South East Asia and on April 4, 1968, Dr King became the J. Edgar Hoover’s sacrificial lamb. Then Bobby arose as the likely replacement and
1/ “I MUST make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block… 
2/ in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;…
3/ who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to…
#thread Communist-led Vietnamese victory over the third(usa) imperialist occupation in as many decades happened today 45yrs ago, the socialist north and the Vietnamese ppl finally liberated and reunified the entire country.
#HoChiMinh, Vietnamese Communist leader passes away several years before reunification, he passes away in Sept 1969. His life story is an amazing one.
#HoChiMinh is a leading figure in the founding of the Chinese, French and Vietnamese communist parties founding.
Today I taught a Kindergarten class. I like to do Kindergarten every once in a while to give me a break to where I can just have fun and relax and just enjoy the innocence of children. No games, no awkward hormones, nobody weirdly hitting on me despite me being old enough to...
2) to be their father, just wholesome time with kids who think I’m Superman or some shit. I was in a small town, Woodlake to be exact which ain’t but 15,000 if that. So when I picked up my 23 slightly scared, slightly confused Kinders today, I noticed that one of them was...
3) Was different. Particularly that he was Middle Eastern. He had the same clothes as everyone, spoke perfect English (well as good as a 5 year old can). He was polite, maybe a little hyper but again, he’s 5. He stood up and pledged allegiance to the flag (which I don’t do)...
