During the summer of love I saw people throwing that quote around and I told one of them “you notice how people who are harmed by the riots don’t throw around that quote”. I’ve lost the respect and admiration I once had for MLK Jr but the rest of that quote calls riots counter productive. What infuriates me is that you have politicians whining about how there are no jobs in their area and I’m like why would I invest in an area with a high likelihood of rioting and no backing from the cops
Agreed. I just hate it when people throw that quote around when they don’t live anywhere near rioting and looting. I bet their time would change if their stuff was destroyed
Martin Luther King Jr. would purposely place children on the edges of his protests, because he knew that the fire brigade would be called in to use their high-pressured hoses to disperse them. He knew that it would make the headlines, and he was right. It turned public sentiment in his favour.
He purposely placed children at risk of severe injury he expected to happen, simply because it was politically-expedient.
Yea. I learned about that and other things. I personally go by the content of character philosophy but he is hardly the one who came up with that. Or I guess it should say I go by the (or try to) love your neighbor as yourself commandment.
I used to really admire him and then I learned more about him.
Getting older, this is how I feel about my father. I understand him so much better, but it also revealed all the things he did wrong. So now he's just a man, and it's deflating ngl.
During the summer of love I saw people throwing that quote around and I told one of them “you notice how people who are harmed by the riots don’t throw around that quote”. I’ve lost the respect and admiration I once had for MLK Jr but the rest of that quote calls riots counter productive. What infuriates me is that you have politicians whining about how there are no jobs in their area and I’m like why would I invest in an area with a high likelihood of rioting and no backing from the cops
Riots are the voice of the unheard because nobody gives a shit what your cause is if you're acting like a rabid dog that needs to be put down.
Agreed. I just hate it when people throw that quote around when they don’t live anywhere near rioting and looting. I bet their time would change if their stuff was destroyed
Martin Luther King Jr. would purposely place children on the edges of his protests, because he knew that the fire brigade would be called in to use their high-pressured hoses to disperse them. He knew that it would make the headlines, and he was right. It turned public sentiment in his favour.
He purposely placed children at risk of severe injury he expected to happen, simply because it was politically-expedient.
Yea. I learned about that and other things. I personally go by the content of character philosophy but he is hardly the one who came up with that. Or I guess it should say I go by the (or try to) love your neighbor as yourself commandment.
I used to really admire him and then I learned more about him.
Don't ever meet your heroes.
On the flip side I met Larry Elder and he was awesome. I told him I was a fellow white supremacist
Getting older, this is how I feel about my father. I understand him so much better, but it also revealed all the things he did wrong. So now he's just a man, and it's deflating ngl.
Um I never liked MLK Jr tho.