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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)It may have helped, but there was always Malcolm in the background threatening violent revolution. Nobody want to sit around getting beat and fire hosed just to make white folks see us as human. Been there, done that, if it had worked we wouldn't be here. Peopke in the street be marchin and cops be beating. Those kids martin dealt with were college students, not the poorest of the poor living in run down projects who had already lived hand to mouth and were brought up with violence on all sides. And they skip the billy clubs these days and just shoot us in the back. Just because something brings back good memories to you, don't mean we gonna do a replay of history so's y'all can watch us get beat on for 14 years while marching. People who expect nonviolent marching singing we shall overcome are not the ones who gon get bit up by police dogs or get the shit beat out of them.
I'd rather we didn't have to constantly fight to be human. I'd rather we didn't hav riots because the poorest and blackest get ignored.