Did everyone react like Jesus was killed when MLK got shot like

It was a time when the rich payed about 70% income tax because they were patriots. The right had yet to become monstrous Nazis, and republicans in New York were mostly liberal.

>>85807424
Leftist libcucks might have, there were a ton of communists in the elite circles of society even back then

>>85807554
This, mostly. /pol/ kind of existed as John Birch types ("Martin Luther COON is a Soviet spy!") but they were considered a lunatic fringe.

>>85807554
I can smell the matzo ball soup emanating from this post

>>85807588
Communists dont like niggers

>>85807691
Ah, so this is the power of right-wing philosophy.

>>85807691
>says OP, buttblasted that his shitty /pol/ thread failed

>>85807725

The chutzpah on you Jew boy

>>85807694
That's irrelevant

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures

Basic Soviet strategy was to support a race war in America among other things

It's just the virtue signalling of the time
>'Oh no the uppity negro was put down how sad.'
>'I'm so glad we live in a part of town with no coloureds. Imagine having to live around them'

>>85807424

This was the time when MLK had been whitewashed in order to present him as a peaceful alternative to the "dangerous" Malcolm X and the Black Panthers as change was inevitable.

White moderates loved the modified image of MLK.

>>85807917
Too bad the U.S. gave them those racial issues to exploit.

>>85807790
OP here, just watched the episode, and the show try his hardest to mirror what happened, so I was just surprised, no need to be a cunt

>>85808034
Every country has some racial or ethnic issue to exploit

That's why the US armed the Taliban

>>85807424
They still have feelings anon