Prediction: The May 1st "general strike" is going to be an enormous flop.

[Ken Burch]

223. I salute all those who struggled for justice

And you know perfectly well that I wasn't saying the Civil Rights movement didn't EXIST before then. Of course it did. But it had standards.

But NONE of them ever thought that small gains mattered. No one in the entire Civil Rights movement celebrated the passage of the useless 1957 act(the one that didn't even stop lynching).

It's only radical pressure from below that EVER works. Nothing would ever have been done to fight AIDS if it hadn't been for ACT UP. Every LGBT activist who worked within the system in the Eighties was a failure.

No gay person ever celebrated a partial victory. Nor any worker. What would there have been to celebrate.

It wasn't victory to end segregation in just ONE town. Or to end discrimination against gays in just ONE town. Or to legalize unions in just ONE town. Do you understand?

The only interim victories that are of value are the creation of liberated zones-places where ALL the oppression is wiped out within the boundaries. No moderate approach ever created that.

And Brown V. Board wasn't a partial victory. It was just a victory that was disregarded by those who fought against it at the time. For years, in terms of actually causing school desgregation, Brown was meaningless. It would only have been of real value if it actually led to quick desegregation. I do salute Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins for sort of trying...but they were wrong to denounce the Civil Rights movement when it did the only thing that could have worked and moved to massive civil disobedience. If the struggle had stayed purely legal, like YOU would have liked, we'd still be at least half Jim Crow today. In the Sixties, virtually every black person in the U.S. thought the NAACP and it's "keep it legal" prissiness was a total joke.