I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institutions.

Now, this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome back to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-hosts,

Katina and Garron. Today's topic is Martin Luther King Jr. This is part two of the series,

so make sure that if you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, that you do so, it'll be really helpful

in the start of this conversation moving along into this one you're about to hear.

We first go over the rhetoric that people in MLK's day and even today used to discredit him,

what he actually fought for, the FBI's involvement in his story, and why his legacy matters.

We hope you enjoy the discussion.

I think that a lot of this was just a lot of what people, the rhetoric that people use today

to shoot down any of like the figures in African, you know, in black American history,

which is American history.

We have to realize

that it's part of propaganda machine. So Jim Crow wasn't just a practice. It was, it had

intentions and purpose, and that was to, like, oppress and keep black people in their place.

But after the civil rights movement was passed, of course, then the southern strategy

happened.

And that's where Thurman and Nixon, they helped develop that southern strategy in 72.

Well, and in 1972, Nixon won every southern state.

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