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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hmm whom to believe, MLK or some random lemming?

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  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It seems MLK was exhausted by how ineffective peaceful protest throughout his campaigning, and communicated his doubts of whether peaceful means would actually work in his letter from Birmingham Jail. He stuck with peaceful means till he was assassinated, which is commendable.

    After King’s death, the violent Holy Week Uprising occurred in response. At the end of that week, the Civil Rights Act had been passed. It sure seems like the Holy Week Uprising got some of what it wanted much faster than King’s years of peaceful protest. What King absolutely brought about, though, was a strong alignment for members of the Civil rights movement, which made the Uprising possible in the first place.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the US government props him up as a savior to try preventing anyone from thinking about violent means of resistance as a viable option. Same with Gandhi,

      Go ahead and tell me more about my country.

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