I guess it is a stupid way to get your idea across... and it does tend to alienate people.

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184. 'Hoards of Black people'? Did someone make that claim?

I did not see anyone say there were 'hoards of Black people burning flags' except you.

You have missed the whole point of the OP obviously. Breaking the law, burning a flag, throwing rocks at buildings, all these things occur in every movement and there are always the faux 'offended' who focus on these comparatively minor events and deliberately use them to distract from the major issues. That happened back then and that is what is happening now. It was expected, it was discussed before the first Protest in NYC began. And as predicted, as if programmed, the usual suspects behave as expected. The only surprise is to see it here on DU.

You are diminishing the importance of a part of the history of this country and attempting to put your own take on the motives of 'white people' or 'black people' who choose remember it. Very strange, I have never seen anyone before object to anyone referring back to an historical period.

You see things your way, I see them differently. I know very well how African Americans were viewed back then and still are by many bigoted morons. Sorry I never shared the views of bigots, as I said, I see people who were deprived of rights.

I saw people in N. Ireland who were deprived of their rights, for over 800 years. I see people in the ME, deprived of their rights, people in Canada, people in Australia, in South America, in Africa, regardless of where it is, it is a human failure that throughout history there have always been the oppressors and the oppressed. And thankfully there have also been those with the courage to try to change things.

And generally the oppressed are not the wealthy. To say class has nothing to do with oppression is just silly. Show me anywhere in history a wealthy class of people who were oppressed.

As for the shooting of Meredith, my error, but I made it so won't try to excuse it. I am aware of his lifestory as it was part of the history I studied on the Civil Rights era.. But I did give you something to jump all over, so enjoy yourself with that. I won't even edit it so that your 'gotcha' post can be read in context.