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Like Getting People To Stop Throwing Around The Term ‘Magic Negro’

Posted on January 19, 2009 at 11:18 am

RNC Chairman candidate Chip Saltsman says there is still work to be done before Martin Luther King’s dream is realized:

Although born in Nashville just days before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic death in Memphis, my life and the life of my country have been shaped by Dr. King’s vision of an America that was united by brotherhood and justice and that refused to be divided by race, color or creed.

Since those dark days of 1968, our nation has made tremendous progress towards his noble hope. While more work remains, his life and his service provide an ideal to which we should always aspire and which we should never forget.

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2 Responses to “Like Getting People To Stop Throwing Around The Term ‘Magic Negro’”

  1. January 19th, 2009 12:44 pm

    Yeah. Those folks at the LA Times who coined that phrase ought to be dealt with.

  2. January 19th, 2009 3:27 pm

    [...] Kleinheider guy over at Post Politics links to a statement remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by one-time TN GOP chair and Republican [...]

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