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It took the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to push the pen for housing rights.

So MLK had been a very prim and proper Negro, right?

He was very much that in the fight for black rights.

He marched.

He got arrested, all of that.

But he was willing to work with the whites from a place of moral grounds.

He really believed, like he genuinely believed that the issue we face as black folks in the United States

was really much more of a disconnect from its humanity.

Like if we just show them that we are human like them, then they'll get it.

You know, we just haven't had the chance to do that.

So using passive resistance was a way we could disarm their hatred.

With love.

I mean, it was a noble vision.

It was a noble vision.

Let's not hate.

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