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11. Exactly one year to the day after...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:51 PM
Apr 4

...King's infamous and prophetic Beyond Vietnam speech. ("Infamous" because many newspapers attacked King, and even some of his supporters broke ranks. But King's diagnosis was correct: the country needed strong medicine when it came to its ruptures over race and class).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Vietnam:_A_Time_to_Break_Silence

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