Neolibs love to prop up MLK, Mandela, and Ghandi for the success of their nonviolent campaigns, but always conveniently leave out Black Panthers, Malcom X, Necklacing, and the Indian revolutionaries who, either through more militant or violent means, forced their oppressors hand in tandem with their more “peaceful” contemporaries.
A relevant quote from Malcolm X I’ve always liked: “At one time the whites in the United States called [King] a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.”
Neolibs love to prop up MLK, Mandela, and Ghandi for the success of their nonviolent campaigns, but always conveniently leave out Black Panthers, Malcom X, Necklacing, and the Indian revolutionaries who, either through more militant or violent means, forced their oppressors hand in tandem with their more “peaceful” contemporaries.
A relevant quote from Malcolm X I’ve always liked: “At one time the whites in the United States called [King] a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.”