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"The next day, the next day the Sealtest people were talking nice, they were very humble. And I am proud to say that I went to Cleveland just last Tuesday, and I sat down with the Sealtest people and some seventy ministers from Cleveland, and we signed the agreement. This effort resulted in a number of jobs, which will bring almost five hundred thousand dollars of new income to the Negro community a year. We also said to Sealtest, 'The problem that we face is that the ghetto is a domestic colony that's constantly drained without being replenished. And you are always telling us to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps, and yet we are being robbed every day. Put something back in the ghetto.' So along with our demand for jobs, we said, 'We also demand that you put money in the Negro savings and loan association and that you take ads, advertise, in the Cleveland Call & Post, the Negro newspaper.' So along with the new jobs, Sealtest has now deposited thousands of dollars in the Negro bank of Cleveland and has already started taking ads in the Negro newspaper in that city. This is the power of Operation Breadbasket." -- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1929-01-15, d. 1968-04-04), "Where Do We Go From Here?", 1967-08-16(?) [bold emphasis added to mark the bit I really wanted to quote but felt needed context around it]

(And somehow, patterns like the one he was trying to change keep getting set up again and again in various places, the same way or in slightly different ways ...)