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In reply to the discussion: Walmart pressing felony charges against employee who ate ‘multiple’ Oreo cookies [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)other forces assisting them, they have been deified for their peaceful process. I lived through the King era. I think most of the alternatives were more noise than heat, and I think the government used them in an attempt to discredit the civil rights movement. The riots of the era were pretty much confined to areas of minority concentration...what we used to call ghettos.
Although back in 1987, when I first moved to FL, I was told a story about one of my neighbors. Seems he had owned a lumber yard and was a well known abusive racist. One night the lumber yard caught fire, and members of the surrounding AA community used their guns to keep the fire department from putting out the blaze. The yard was totally destroyed. I must admit, I thought at the time and still do, it was a wonderful story. No one was injured.
The Greeks go after government buildings and banks, you have to love them.