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In reply to the discussion: If They Arrest The Motherfucker The "Rioting" Will Stop! [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,018 posts)worked at all is the less discussed other alternative that allowed folks like King to be negotiated with.
Power never gives peaceably, not truly. Power will negotiate to keep power but even the most peaceful will be regarded and treated as radicals until there are some real radicals that constitute a real threat to transform the peaceful into moderates that can be worked with.
Peaceful marching around with correctly spelled signs and getting your fair share of abuse has never done a damn thing on its own in this country, that is sanitized bullshit to keep you dreaming, saying baaaaa, living a delusion, and trying to keep going despite the frustration of the impotence of knowing you really are just taking a stroll that might get you jailed, beaten, or killed so people stop bothering to even do that.