Shared from Miri Marshmallo You say nothing condones rioting, but after all, have you ever had anything to riot for? And why is it that you think riots are such a novel and grotesque addition to the ongoing fight for civil rights? You can continue to live in this fairy world where you believe that the civil rights movement was an entirely peaceful era of history; that Martin Luther King Jr. held hands with a bunch of like-minded people and overnight shit got better. After all, a passive and nonviolent protest of the dehumanizing conditions people of color had to suffer as citizens in this country is exactly what youre told, right? Its exactly how the history books would have you believe it all went down. Let me break this to you lightly. Your history books are written by a handful of text publishing conglomerates and monitored for content by one conservative teaching committee in Texas. Even the way you are taught about the civil rights movement is monitored by an administrative board that time and again proves to be overwhelming privileged, male, and white. Truth be told, the 60s was any thing but passive and peaceful. But do you really think the ruling class, a class still overwhelmingly made up of white people, want the burgeoning future generations of people of color to know how violent their predecessors were willing to get in orders to obtain basic rights? You have been pacified. The past has been silenced. If you think what Ferguson is going through now is novel, you havent been paying enough attention. Martin Luther King Jr., the man white people like to pick out as our shining example of black nonviolent protest, was arrested thirty times. Death threats were sent to his house on a weekly basis. His face on numerous occasions was busted in by the very people who supposedly serve and protect. And he was assassinated by a white man for trying to do better. And Dr. King is just one of a list of assassinations too long for me to recount, names that have also never received their fair shake at justice. If you really think riots are inexcusable, that the loss of personal property trumps a verdict that could potentially affect the security and well-being of millions of American citizens, then you are too naive to be having this debate. There are things with fighting for.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:58:37 +0000
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