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Actually, MLK has much to say about "inconvenient" protests. https://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2014/12/31/mlk-on-inconvenient-protests/ https://www.mic

• hueving 10y ago
  >You are committing that error. No I am not. I am fine with disruptive protests, but they should be disrupting the people who need their minds changed. What is so difficult to understand about the fact that we are talking about protesting in the wrong place entirely? The analogy is MLK protesting in an all-black church to prevent the constituents from hearing a sermon from a civil rights activist. This has nothing to do with "inconvenient" protests so much as idiotic protests disrupting the very choir to which they are preaching.
  • wpietri 10y ago
    > they should be disrupting the people who need their minds changed No. You continue to fail to understand MLK's theory of protest. If you have read his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, you give no sign of it. If the people being disrupted are already active in a movement to change things, they will not mind the protest. But if they are merely people who say "I agree with you in the goal you seek" without active support, then they are the very moderates that MLK was addressing here: "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate [...]".