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?
Actual gripe? Yes. Justified violence? Ehhhhhhh.
I still think there’s more to the story.
Yes, I would consider segregation and Jim Crow to be an actual gripe. I would probably resort to violence and tearing up civilization if I was treated like dirt and as a second class citizen that is not allowed to participate in certain aspects of society.
I’d probably just leave or something. I’m just not the type to resort to violence to prove my political grounds outside of another’s country invasion. Using violence to prove your point is lame, my dude. Even MLK jr. believed that.