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Martin Luther King, 53 years ago: "The focus on property in the 1967 riots is not accidental. It has a message; it is saying something." Hostility "was sublimated into arson, or turned into a kind of stormy carnival of free-merchandise distribution." @WCCO/1265804978792341504On twitter.com
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"Far more rioters took chances with their own lives, in their attacks on property, than threatened the life of anyone else. Why were they so violent with property then? Because property represents the white power structure, which they were attacking and trying to destroy."Permalink On twitter.com
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More on MLK, riots, and property destruction here: woborders.blog/2012/03/24/mlk-on-riots-and-property-destruction/Permalink On twitter.com
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