[thecavemaster]

Perhaps as you suggest maybe not in physical enslavement, but I also strongly suggest that he did incite a hatred into hearts that in some senses is just as damaging. Again I diasgree with your disagreeing.

You do have to remember too CM, that there were thousands and thousands of white men that gave the ultimate sacrifice by giving their own lives to see that a black human was set free from bondage. I wonder why only that negative aspect of American history get exposed and nothing is ever mentioned for the immense passion and love that many many white men showed for their black brothers.

You are correct about white folks participating in the civil rights movement... a fact which MLK reminded black folks of quite often. However, often in history, when an oppressed people find they can't take any more, they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone. The reaction of the oppressed to the oppressor's institutionalized racism is less culpable, in my opinion.