I'm going to drop this here...

[F4lconF16]

61. I can't and won't support a violent revolution.

Which is why I'm terrified that 40 years from now, we won't have already changed our society. Eventually something's going to snap.

As for her being an extremist and and agitator...I am also an extremist and an agitator. I believe in a revolution; I don't think we're anywhere close, though, and I'm not pushing for one yet. I'm an agitator; I block traffic, protest, etc. I think those words are much more emotionally charged than they should be.

I have a feeling I know what is radicalizing her, though--especially since she's told me some of the reasons. And since many of her reasons are the same as those radicalizing me (I am a proud radical, by the way). Perhaps this: 314 black people killed since Ferguson. How about this? 1/3 of black males will go to prison in their lifetime. It might the crushing poverty statistics. Or maybe it's just that racism and racial control in this country is almost as bad, albeit in a different form, than back 50-100 years ago. Or longer.

She's desperate. Black America is getting destroyed, systematically. And the worst part is it's being almost entirely ignored. "Justice or else" and "by any means necessary" are options that she's keeping open, because when all else fails (and it certainly appears to be failing for now at least), what are you going to do? Can't say I agree with that, but I certainly understand it. She's one of the more radical members of BLM, but she's got basically the same principles as many if not most of the movement. There's a reason she's been speaking at community meetings, at 500+ person Black Power to Black Lives Matter events, and being so well received. Her rhetoric is strong, and that is as it should be. We need people like her to wake us up.

The NOI doesn't have much to do with this, imho. BLM is separate from that. Unless you can show a link, I think the plight of Black America is more than enough reason to radicalize.

I don't know about any of this, though. I've got a lot to learn, and these are just my (mostly) not very well thought though musings wandering around my head today.