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bioemerl  ·  3527 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Kanye West Say About the Black Experience in America

    Is proof to me you know nothing. MLK was a radical. He's been White-Washed in such a way that people like you parrot the "he was about peace"

He was about "peace", non-violent protest specifically.

MLK is known for the message of standing up for what you believe in without attack. He was a radical in his time, I do not even begin to deny that.

    I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice

See, I know of this speech, and I it is actually one of the speeches from MLK that I remembered the most. Notice he talks about order. He is talking about people who act as the quotes I gave above, people who would say "why don't those poor black people just stop protesting".

I am not calling for an end to protesting. I am not saying that people shouldn't be angry, and shouldn't try and fight for what they believe in (and by fight I do not mean violent fighting).

    Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

He didn't stand to demean, to attack, or to push others down or tell them they were horrible. He stood for raising awareness for a cause through protest. Through educating people, through planting said seed in their mind that something is wrong. That something needs to change.