MLK
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MLK is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between March 10, 2022 and October 07, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “People like to contrast the soft-spoken MLK with the more radical Malcolm X”; “He draws a line from the Kennedy and MLK assassinations”; “Kennedy and MLK assassinations”. It most often appears alongside 1968 convention, 1976 Democratic, 1976 Democratic primary.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: March 10, 2022
- Last seen: October 07, 2022
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- 1968 convention (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 Democratic (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 Democratic primary (1 shared issues)
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- 1976 primary (1 shared issues)
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- 1979 oil crisis (1 shared issues)
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- 1980 (1 shared issues)
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- Adraste (1 shared issues)
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- Air Force One (1 shared issues)
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- Al Gore (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American Christianity (1 shared issues)
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- American embassy (1 shared issues)
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How Did Other Protest Movements Solve This Problem? People like to contrast the soft-spoken MLK with the more radical Malcolm X, but probably both of them fall on the Berserker side of our dichotomy above. Does that mean our dichotomy is too weak? Did anyone do Fabian for civil rights? The best example I can think of is the NAACP passing over lots of less-sympathetic test cases before they settled on Rosa Parks for fighting bus segregation. Maybe a more to-the-point retort is that people who employ the Fabian Strategy successfully don’t make the news. Or make the news as Congressman #26 Who Voted For Civil Rights Legislation. On the other hand, some good examples of Fabian Strategy successes are the actual Fabians and the neoliberals.
Although this analysis is about as sophisticated as the kind of thing a precocious 19-year-old would tell you over bong hits, Carter eats it all up. Two days after the summit, he delivers a prime-time address to the country in which he claims that the real crisis isn’t the poor economy, but the American crisis of confidence. He draws a line from the Kennedy and MLK assassinations through the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate and all the way to the current energy crisis. It is perhaps the most unusual speech ever delivered by an American president—a wide-ranging, almost religious homily about America’s many failings.
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