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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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Liberal academic Richard Kahlenberg thinks the only way to truly solve America’s deep inequities is to look at class, not race. "When we focus exclusively on race and ignore the class issues, we are missing a huge part of what makes society unfair in America today."
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0:49.0 | On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. |
0:57.0 | riots broke out in cities across the country. |
1:00.0 | That night, Robert F. Kennedy spoke to a majority black crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
1:08.0 | Kennedy stood on the back of a flatbed truck. He wore an overcoat that had belonged to his brother, |
1:14.0 | the late President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated five years earlier. |
1:19.0 | What we need in the United States is not division, what we need in the United States is not hatred, |
1:26.0 | what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, |
1:31.0 | but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, |
1:37.0 | feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, |
1:43.0 | whether they be white or whether they be black. |
1:48.0 | Robert Kennedy had entered the 1968 presidential race barely a month earlier in March of that year. |
1:55.0 | The most potent theme of his campaign gelled in Indiana. |
2:00.0 | Kennedy's vision was of a cross-race coalition based on class as much as skin color, |
2:07.0 | one that could unite around what Kennedy saw as the biggest injustice of the plight of the working class |
2:13.0 | and the poor in America. |
2:16.0 | I've been to the Delhi area of Mississippi and I've seen young children starve. |
2:20.0 | Not the possibility that they are starving, but starving. |
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