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   (CNN) -- Here's a dirty little secret about the civil rights   
   movement:   
      
   A lot of Americans just don't want to hear about it anymore.   
      
   They find the subject dull or it makes them angry. Some African-   
   Americans don't want to hear stories about their parents getting   
   hit upside the head while singing "We Shall Overcome." And some   
   whites don't want to feel guilty.   
      
   The result? We treat the movement like broccoli: It's good for   
   us, we're told, but we shove it aside on our plates when no one   
   is looking.   
      
   I know. What I've just said is blasphemous. But I say it not out   
   of scorn, but concern. I was once a civil rights apostate who   
   sneaked out of rooms early to avoid holding hands and mumbling   
   along to "We Shall Overcome." Then I experienced a conversion.   
      
   I eventually wrote a book about the movement, and spent years   
   talking about the subject to interracial groups.   
      
   I was reminded of my conversion when I heard that a new civil   
   rights museum was opening in Atlanta on June 23, and that this   
   month activists would commemorate the 50th anniversary of a   
   dramatic civil rights campaign called Mississippi Freedom Summer.   
      
   I wish them well. I've learned through experience, though, that   
   civil rights museums and commemorations have a tough task.   
      
   During the years that I spoke publicly about civil rights, I   
   encountered three myths that do more damage to the movement than   
   "for white only" signs ever did.   
      
   No. 1: It was a black thang   
      
   I didn't go to a historically black college. I went to a   
   hysterically black school. I attended Howard University in   
   Washington, where the struggle of black America was drilled into   
   students' heads. When I was on campus, I used to see students   
   wearing T-shirts that unwittingly reflected a huge myth about   
   the movement. The T-shirts read:   
      
   "It's a black thang -- you wouldn't understand."   
      
   A quick word association test. When you hear the words civil   
   rights, what kind of faces do you see? Only black? As I talked   
   to various groups about the movement, I gradually realized that   
   it was primarily seen as a black struggle instead of an American   
   movement that helped all sorts of people.   
      
   It was a simplistic perception of the movement that someone on   
   National Public Radio recently described this way:   
      
   "Rosa sat down, Martin stood up, then the white folks saw the   
   light and saved the day."   
      
   It took me awhile to realize that white people were actually   
   part of the movement, not just as racists or rescuers.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/21/living/movement-   
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   It didn't include faggots back then and it doesn't include   
   faggots now.   
      
   Faggots are not a protected class.  They are degenerate   
   pedophiles.   
      
       
      
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