• gedaliyah
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    That also means, if Anne Frank and MLK, were alive today, they would only be in their 90s.

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      95, to be precise. Only two years older than William Shatner.

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      Yeah, people often forget how long people live after major events in history and are surprised the underlying issues haven’t gone away. We still have people from the wrong side of the civil rights movement in leadership positions.