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Because Martin Luther King Jr. was such a large proponent of violence...
by Dirlewanger 10y ago
Because Martin Luther King Jr. was such a large proponent of violence...
- donatj 10y agoAnd Gandhi
- vkou 10y agoMartin Luther King would not have gotten anywhere if it weren't for people like Malcolm X (Who scared the hell out of white America.) When you've got Black Panthers on the streets with assault weapons, negotiating with (Instead of ignoring) a pacifist Baptist minister suddenly starts to sound like a way better idea. Ghandi won because the empire was, quite literally, too broke to hold on to its colonies. An Indian nationalist movement would not have gotten anywhere before the World Wars bankrupted England. Mind you, today, Martin Luther King's boycotts and marches are called economic terrorism.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoTo say a thing like this betrays the lack of just about any knowledge of the historical record.