"Please don't act like everyone loved my father."
"Please don't act like everyone loved my father."
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The white liberals who try to co-opt MLK always forget to point out that MLK literally considered white liberals a more insidious obstacle to liberation than the KKK was.
And he was perfectly correct about that, too.
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The hero we need. Who will rise up to his legacy? Who among us will face injustice and call it out on the streets?
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Wouldn't it be crazy if 60 years from now we had Luigi Day?
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You tell em, Beatrice.
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And he still made the biggest impact of all with a message of nonviolence, peace, and prosperity.
Other civil rights figures lived in his shadow.
People these days have forgotten history and instead seek impotent rage and ineffective violence.
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Protest without the threat of violence has never accomplished anything. Gandhi, MLK, hippies, labor activists, and all the rest only got what they wanted when the elites were afraid of what would happen to them if they did not give in.
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Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
- Stokely Carmichael
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Anybody here seen my old friend Luigi?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Thought I saw him walkin' over the hill
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All of the examples of inneffective people you gave did result in systemic change, though...
India became independent, the civil rights act was signed, Nixon resigned and there hasn't been a draft since Vietnam...
Labor movement is a bit too vague on a global context I am afraid.
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They hated him because he spoke the truth.
He may have spoken the truth, but that's not why they hated him. They hated him because he was a black man fighting back. It was breaking the status quo that was the issue, not truth. They never cared about that, for or against.