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F4lconF16

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96. MLK would disagree with non-violent direct action?

Tue Apr 7, 2015, 03:32 PM

Apr 2015

Are you kidding me?

Not finishing this conversation, because we've just jumped off the deep end. I don't think you have a clue what MLK was really like--a social radical, one who engaged in direct action constantly. Someone who pissed people off, who didn't confine his protests to places where people wouldn't see them. Someone who got in people's faces, angering them with the truth of his words and his actions. He was not a popular man when he was alive, because he didn't play nicely with what other people wanted. People hated him for his protests.

Ever heard of the Poor People's Campaign? Yeah, that was MLK. He literally wanted to shut down a city.

You don't know a damn thing about him.

What a pathetic way to usurp his legacy--decrying direct action, and pretending that that he would have supported that.

He would have been marching with those protestors every step of the way.

I'm done.

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