People only listened to Martin’s peaceful compromise, because the alternative wasn’t gonna be the status quo, the alternative was Malcolm and the Black Panthers…
And they still both got killed, alongside two Kennedy’s. And Ronald fucking Reagan himself to establish Cali’s gun laws.
The 60s was a very violent time politically that’s why the establishment was scared enough to start handing out civil rights to calm the masses.
Riots are what keep governments and the wealthy scared to oppress the populace. But in an ideal society that’s not necessary. So we keep getting into cycles of necessary riots, earning rights, then them slowly eroding while privileged people say even peaceful protests aren’t needed.
When people can’t peacefully protest, or when governments dont listen to them…
The people turn to a different kind of protest. It’s their only option left, so it’s just a matter of time. Might be days/weeks/months, even years or decades. But eventually they’ll turn to it.
King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.
King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.
The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.
People only listened to Martin’s peaceful compromise, because the alternative wasn’t gonna be the status quo, the alternative was Malcolm and the Black Panthers…
And they still both got killed, alongside two Kennedy’s. And Ronald fucking Reagan himself to establish Cali’s gun laws.
The 60s was a very violent time politically that’s why the establishment was scared enough to start handing out civil rights to calm the masses.
Riots are what keep governments and the wealthy scared to oppress the populace. But in an ideal society that’s not necessary. So we keep getting into cycles of necessary riots, earning rights, then them slowly eroding while privileged people say even peaceful protests aren’t needed.
When people can’t peacefully protest, or when governments dont listen to them…
The people turn to a different kind of protest. It’s their only option left, so it’s just a matter of time. Might be days/weeks/months, even years or decades. But eventually they’ll turn to it.
King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.
King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.
The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.
Yeah, a big piece of revisionist history is portraying those two as fighting each other
For the same reason the wealthy keep trying to turn modern protesters against each other, or even voters against each other via means testing.
The two of them weren’t competing they were both working to the same ends.
And that scares the oligarchs when the poors unite.
I’m not an expert on civil rights, but I do remember King and Malcolm X having some… disagreements.