When Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly came out against the Vietnam War in 1967, he contended that __________
A) the war consumed funds that might otherwise be used to fight Communism elsewhere
B) black casualties in the war were disproportionately high and contrasted with the strategy of nonviolence by civil rights activists
C) the war in Vietnam was a civil war and not about communist subversion
D) African Americans should oppose any sort of state-sponsored violence
Answer: B
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