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And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left Podcast,

in which we shall hear just a few of the details of Martin Luther King Jr.

that we're not taught in school, from his opposition to the Vietnam War,

to his support of redistribution of wealth through democratic socialism,

or by any other means, as long as the result was a more equal economic society,

and how it was necessary for America to forget all of these details in order to make him the hero we see him as today.

Either that, or the sanitized version of King was made into a hero with the intention of bearing those more subversive ideas.

Our clips today come from a newsbeat, intercepted, counter-spin,

start making sense, and making contact.

I must confess that dream that I had that day has, and many points, turned into a nightmare.

Roger C. Williams, pastor, First Baptist Church.

As the pastor of a Baptist Church, I'm often pressed into service by local officials

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