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From: fudge-packer@barackobama.com

(CNN) -- Here's a dirty little secret about the civil rights
movement:

A lot of Americans just don't want to hear about it anymore.

They find the subject dull or it makes them angry. Some African-
Americans don't want to hear stories about their parents getting
hit upside the head while singing "We Shall Overcome." And some
whites don't want to feel guilty.

The result? We treat the movement like broccoli: It's good for
us, we're told, but we shove it aside on our plates when no one
is looking.

I know. What I've just said is blasphemous. But I say it not out
of scorn, but concern. I was once a civil rights apostate who
sneaked out of rooms early to avoid holding hands and mumbling
along to "We Shall Overcome." Then I experienced a conversion.

I eventually wrote a book about the movement, and spent years
talking about the subject to interracial groups.

I was reminded of my conversion when I heard that a new civil
rights museum was opening in Atlanta on June 23, and that this
month activists would commemorate the 50th anniversary of a
dramatic civil rights campaign called Mississippi Freedom Summer.

I wish them well. I've learned through experience, though, that
civil rights museums and commemorations have a tough task.

During the years that I spoke publicly about civil rights, I
encountered three myths that do more damage to the movement than
"for white only" signs ever did.

No. 1: It was a black thang

I didn't go to a historically black college. I went to a
hysterically black school. I attended Howard University in
Washington, where the struggle of black America was drilled into
students' heads. When I was on campus, I used to see students
wearing T-shirts that unwittingly reflected a huge myth about
the movement. The T-shirts read:

"It's a black thang -- you wouldn't understand."

A quick word association test. When you hear the words civil
rights, what kind of faces do you see? Only black? As I talked
to various groups about the movement, I gradually realized that
it was primarily seen as a black struggle instead of an American
movement that helped all sorts of people.

It was a simplistic perception of the movement that someone on
National Public Radio recently described this way:

"Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, then the white folks saw the
light and saved the day."

It took me awhile to realize that white people were actually
part of the movement, not just as racists or rescuers.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/21/living/movement- dull/?hpt=ob_articlefooter&iref=obnetwork

It didn't include faggots back then and it doesn't include
faggots now.

Faggots are not a protected class. They are degenerate
pedophiles.
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