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Yeah, but not with his communication skills, or his heart. They really need someone like Dr. King now, but they are not getting that with this movement.
Every once in a while, a person comes along who can string words together in the most beautiful way, and inspire people to great heights. Dr. King is in a league with Shakespeare as far as poetic language is concerned, but he was actually fighting for something.
He was also non-violent. Something these rioters have no clue about.
Black Lives Matter is a Civil Rights Movement. It's about injustice. It's about the conditions & the underlying or root causes that are bringing about the demonstrations & protests.
I agree with you about Dr. King, I have great respect & admiration for him. Although there are folks in the present day who are carrying on his unfinished work.
No they are not! You guys are crazy if you think violence is the answer. How you like it if that was your property being burned to the ground and someone in your family is assaulted by one of these thugs.
Total unacceptable her folks.
We should be talking about bring industry back to these cities and control our borders.
Black Lives Matter is a Civil Rights Movement. It's about injustice. It's about the conditions & the underlying or root causes that are bringing about the demonstrations & protests.
I agree with you about Dr. King, I have great respect & admiration for him. Although there are folks in the present day who are carrying on his unfinished work.
Dr King was for peace, BLM doesn't seem to be. What is the purpose of burning and looting and many times their own city. They are only making things worse.
He was also non-violent. Something these rioters have no clue about.
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action.
...You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ..."
Ahh, I see some of you want to bring up Dr King...
Dr. King and his generation faced real oppression. Today there are college grants, head start programs, heavy investment in education, and financial aid for living expenses. There is a safety net now, and many thousands of poor black people have moved into the middle and upper classes since King's time.
I agree with you about Dr. King, I have great respect & admiration for him. Although there are folks in the present day who are carrying on his unfinished work.
None of those folks are in BLM, which engages in terrorism, not peaceful protest.
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action.
...You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. ..."
So what did he do in Birmingham? He caused nonviolent tension by being civilly in their face. He didn't urge people to burn sh*t down in the suburbs, or in the poor neighborhoods. That's why Dr. King's methods cannot be compared to what happened in Milwaukee or Ferguson or Baltimore, or Dallas or Baton Rouge.
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