[lbo-talk] letter to editor

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

Also, wasn't the military desegregated by Truman?  But not to nitpick, WS's
point about it being a synergy of both (internal/external) is something I
can't disagree with.  If anyone read *Age of Extremes* though they'd know
what I was talking about with Hobsbawm.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


> At 11:05 AM 8/25/2010, Wojtek S wrote:
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>  Race riots at home was the last thing they needed at that time.  The
>> brewing
>> tension would further undermine their war effort.  So they come up with
>> War
>> on Poverty.  Today, they would simply send in the marines.
>>
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> Chronology is important and I think you've demonstrated you really don't
> know what you're talking about.
>
> The War on Poverty legislation was introduced by Johnson in January 1964.
>  The most severe race riots occurred afterward, particularly in the summer
> of 1967.
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