Photo: STF, Larry Stoddard / Beaumont
Reblogged from Martin Luther King: His Life in Pictures
“Jeering white youths display this sign, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and demonstrators marched into all-white neighborhood on far Southwest Side of city in Chicago, Aug. 22, 1966.”
You might have expected this kind of blind, bigoted ignorance in 1962 Mississippi, but this is Chicago – home to the finest blues musicians in the world – and the mid-sixties, when the music of black American artists on Motown and Atlantic Records was being lauded around the world. In white youth culture conditions were already brewing for a Summer Of Love that would erupt the following year.
OK, racism has a long and inglorious history, but who was inciting these Illinois kids to this kind of poisonous intolerance in 1966 ? My guess is maybe the fat ugly c*nt holding the top right hand corner of the placard had something to do with it – maybe he’s even their dad. I was wrong in yesterday’s post. EMI witholding the footage of Dr King’s speech isn’t a fucking disgrace.
THIS is a fucking disgrace.
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