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In reply to the discussion: Since Florida cannot defend black life against white fear, the question now is: How should black peo [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)blacks vs. whites.
And what are black people supposed to do?
A popular DU answer is - arm themselves.
Well, here's what Martin Luther King said after his house, with his wife and baby daughter in it, was bombed during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
"If you have weapons, take them home, if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve the problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus 'He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword' I then urged them to leave peacefully. "We must love our white brothers," I said "no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: 'love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you' This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love."
And Good Lord, I cannot even start with your whole "white people suck" view of history.
Clearly though, I need to get back to work on my book.
But just as clearly, no amount of facts and reasoning are gonna sway you.