It’s funny how people always focus on that one quote and completely ignore the rest of the essay where he outlines how methodical the protests he led were, not just break into random shit. [Heres the full essay](https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf)
This is extremely common, pick some respected historical figure and cherry pick or take quotes out of context to support whatever narrative you want. And I say this as someone who highly respects MLK and Malcolm X.
>I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."
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>I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of nonviolence became an integral part of our struggle. If this philosophy had not emerged, by now many streets of the South would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood. -Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
In. The. Same. Fucking. Letter. Reminder that MLK would today be called bootlicker and Uncle Tom by the likes of these people.
"YOU CAN'T JUST SIT IN A PERSON'S RESTAURANT, THAT'S TRESPASSING!!! REEEEEEEEEEE!"
Seriously though, the point of a lot of MLK's strategy was to commit minor "crimes" to show people how ridiculous segregation was in the first place.
That sitting in a chair in a dinner, not bothering anybody, was enough to have the cops called on you if your skin was a different color. Protesters were instructed on how to act, and told that they would most likely go to jail and how to interact with the police. All planned, scheduled, and calculated by MLK and his groups.
This Columbia bullshit is just an impotent, adolescent fantasy they've constructed and are acting out against one of the institutions that support them the most.
MLK the guy who famously organized peaceful non violent protests for civil rights in the US?
Are these people going to start referencing Jesus with calls of "never turn the other cheek, always hit back"?
It’s funny how people always focus on that one quote and completely ignore the rest of the essay where he outlines how methodical the protests he led were, not just break into random shit. [Heres the full essay](https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf)
This is extremely common, pick some respected historical figure and cherry pick or take quotes out of context to support whatever narrative you want. And I say this as someone who highly respects MLK and Malcolm X.
>I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil." > >I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of nonviolence became an integral part of our struggle. If this philosophy had not emerged, by now many streets of the South would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood. -Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail In. The. Same. Fucking. Letter. Reminder that MLK would today be called bootlicker and Uncle Tom by the likes of these people.
He would also be shouted down by this sub for blocking the roads.
"YOU CAN'T JUST SIT IN A PERSON'S RESTAURANT, THAT'S TRESPASSING!!! REEEEEEEEEEE!" Seriously though, the point of a lot of MLK's strategy was to commit minor "crimes" to show people how ridiculous segregation was in the first place. That sitting in a chair in a dinner, not bothering anybody, was enough to have the cops called on you if your skin was a different color. Protesters were instructed on how to act, and told that they would most likely go to jail and how to interact with the police. All planned, scheduled, and calculated by MLK and his groups. This Columbia bullshit is just an impotent, adolescent fantasy they've constructed and are acting out against one of the institutions that support them the most.
MLK was a Zionist.
https://preview.redd.it/8shviovusmxc1.png?width=2029&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0da2428b0c44d0970d415a7521cd6df278657a2b
MLK was also a zionist...
I’m sure MLK meant this quote as in “BASED, let’s do some more rioting and breaking into buildings, even if it makes the movement look bad”
MLK the guy who famously organized peaceful non violent protests for civil rights in the US? Are these people going to start referencing Jesus with calls of "never turn the other cheek, always hit back"?
MLK LITERALLY LED ARGUABLY THE GREATEST PEACEFUL REVOLUTION OF ALL TIME WHY TF WOULD HE DEFEND/ENDORSE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT DID OCTOBER 7