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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3078135" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>Well, that's a stance for state violence against protestors. Smh.</p><p>History is instructive here, MLK and other members of civil rights movements are always characterized as criminals, trouble makers who are causing violence, property damage and either trying to fix a problem that's already been solved or going about trying to solve the problem the wrong way.</p><p></p><p>MLK was called part of a Negro Goon Squad. Again the opinion that black people standing for civil rights are criminals who deserve violence from the state is an old and common belief. It is the reaction most white citizens have always had in response to civil rights demands from black Americans. It is the same old same old.</p><p></p><p>In the end, what you have is a police officer kills a man under very questionable circumstances with an illegal weapon in a place where plenty of citizens have had very negative interactions with police which is apart of a longstanding issue for those citizens.</p><p></p><p>Either one cares about that issue and sees it as a problem worth being angry about, worth causing disruption or one thinks "those people" get what they deserve. To me this is what it boils down to how people respond to the protests if they are honest with themselves.</p><p></p><p>Mass protest movements are how human beings have traditionally tried to organize in society. It's how they have caused action legislatively or socially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 3078135, member: 66082"] Well, that's a stance for state violence against protestors. Smh. History is instructive here, MLK and other members of civil rights movements are always characterized as criminals, trouble makers who are causing violence, property damage and either trying to fix a problem that's already been solved or going about trying to solve the problem the wrong way. MLK was called part of a Negro Goon Squad. Again the opinion that black people standing for civil rights are criminals who deserve violence from the state is an old and common belief. It is the reaction most white citizens have always had in response to civil rights demands from black Americans. It is the same old same old. In the end, what you have is a police officer kills a man under very questionable circumstances with an illegal weapon in a place where plenty of citizens have had very negative interactions with police which is apart of a longstanding issue for those citizens. Either one cares about that issue and sees it as a problem worth being angry about, worth causing disruption or one thinks "those people" get what they deserve. To me this is what it boils down to how people respond to the protests if they are honest with themselves. Mass protest movements are how human beings have traditionally tried to organize in society. It's how they have caused action legislatively or socially. [/QUOTE]
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