It’s like object permance where infants think people are disappearing into thin air during a game of peek a boo.
To some people a problem doesn’t exist unless people are complaining about it. So rather than solve a problem they yell at anyone who acknowledges the problem.
It’s nothing new, MLK was even talking about it in the Birmingham Letter.
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; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
The other part that I bring up a lot is how MLK wasn’t really all that peaceful. Throughout his life he was very open about how his path could only work because the alternative path was Malcolm. Rather than let the choice be between status quo and Martin’s peaceful approach, they framed it as peaceful protests that lead to actual change, or a full on revolution.
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. And I am further convinced that if our white brothers dismiss as “rabble rousers” and “outside agitators” those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies–a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare.
If the worst things can get for those in power is a peaceful protest, they’ll just have the police beat the protestors. If beating protestors gets 1,000 Black Panthers with AR15s, suddenly Ronald Reagan is passing meaningful gun control laws.
Problem permance…
It’s like object permance where infants think people are disappearing into thin air during a game of peek a boo.
To some people a problem doesn’t exist unless people are complaining about it. So rather than solve a problem they yell at anyone who acknowledges the problem.
It’s nothing new, MLK was even talking about it in the Birmingham Letter.
I’m going to have to think about this quote, internalize it, and become better
It’s kind of depressing how much of that letter is still relevant. So it’s good to take the time to read it every once and a while.
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
The other part that I bring up a lot is how MLK wasn’t really all that peaceful. Throughout his life he was very open about how his path could only work because the alternative path was Malcolm. Rather than let the choice be between status quo and Martin’s peaceful approach, they framed it as peaceful protests that lead to actual change, or a full on revolution.
If the worst things can get for those in power is a peaceful protest, they’ll just have the police beat the protestors. If beating protestors gets 1,000 Black Panthers with AR15s, suddenly Ronald Reagan is passing meaningful gun control laws.
i wonder if he was speaking about Billy Graham, who pretended to be his friend until he got “too radical” about speaking up about black oppression