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And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

This is the day we honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

And over on MSNBC yesterday, Ellie Mistal made the point that people he said, and I quote,

people like Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, these are the white people that Martin Luther King Jr.

warned us about. Now, what was he talking about?

King's warning was to the black community kind of indirect in as much as when it was announced

back in April of 1963 that he was coming down to Birmingham, Alabama to participate in a peaceful

march. A group of his colleagues, you know, other pastors, they were all white.

There was one Jewish rabbi and one Catholic priest and a bunch of Protestant ministers.

It was eight people all to eight white men all together.

And they published an open letter in the Birmingham newspaper.

The headline is, white clergy urge local Negroes to withdraw from demonstrations.

And they say, you know, we, the undersigned issue and appeal for law and order and common sense

in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. We are expressed, we expressed understanding that

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