When Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he cited all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
A) the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight poverty in black communities.
B) black casualties in the war were disproportionately high.
C) the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion.
D) it was difficult to explain to African Americans to use nonviolent tactics while his nation used "massive doses of violence" in its fight against Vietnam.
Answer: C
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