I used to watch old footage from the 60s of African Americans getting hosed down in front of businesses for “peacefully protesting”. I used to see that news media footage thinking “look at all this racism, they weren’t doin nuffin”. Now, I wonder what was really happening and if perhaps the media played a role even then in misrepresentation.
This has also made me 100% recontextualize the Rodney king riots. This BLM shit is so toxic, it’s retroactively making me reconsider similar “protests” that I felt were positive or at least justified.
Is anyone else feeling this way?
Not really; I received an excellent education -- both at school and at home.
Civil Rights protests? Eh, 50/50: they did have a real thing to protest about; there were communists that made sure to get situated into that movement (ALL socially progressive movements since the late 1800/early 1900s to now have had some flavor of socialist infiltration -- that's the bad part. Rodney King and today? Oh, hell yeah, those were agitated set-ups. There are some organic concerns, but those are swimming in a sea of communist agitprop.
That's been the socialist playbook from the start. Good agitprop always contains an element of truth.
I’m impressed by your educational credentials but I still have my doubts.
Keep in mind, I’m not criticizing civil rights in and of itself. I’m wondering how fair of a representation we got of what was really happening during the 60s within the black community and how they actually handled it aside from the approved narrative.
The reason we have the perspective of today is because of a mixture of things that didn’t exist back then: social technology, decades of historical perspective, internet access and choices aside from leftist controlled news orgs.
I find it very telling that anyone back then who tried to explain the issues of the black community outside of “whites did it all” was immediately branded racist. Just like today.
The entire right was demonized, just like today. We only saw pro-black, pro-civil rights media when it came to the news, just like today.
Civil rights were also being used as a blanket tactic to push communism, just like today.
You can’t really ignore the parallels, trust me, I’ve desperately tried. But history repeats itself when you don’t fully comprehend what happened the first time and there’s quite a bit of that occurring now.