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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The race riots of 1967 and the rise of the Black Panthers sparked white flight, a sharp reduction in public sympathy for the black community, and the election of Richard Nixon to two terms in office.
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Sparked white flight? Really?
I must have overlooked that brief four or five year period of racial harmony in the US between MLK and the Black Panthers.
Seems more likely white people just didn't much like the new rights black people had just earned, doesn't it?