Quote of the Day

It should be remembered that the civil rights movement shocked the American system.  Martin Luther King may have a statue in his memory on the National Mall, but the FBI considered him "the most dangerous Negro" in America.  His fellow activists were hosed, beaten, bitten by dogs, even murdered -- sometimes with the help of law enforcement, more often as they looked the other way in cruel indifference.  Black witness was an affront to American denial, the black bid for equality salt in the ongoing wound of Confederate loss. 

-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 195-196