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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I am aware of that, and was going to put that into the post, in short the US is reaping what it has sown culturally.
The approach you mention is what has gotten the US into the #### show it currently is. Maybe, another approach could result in a different outcome.
That being said Ms. Parks didn't kick and scream.
Me experience is that violence has always been met with violence.
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Peaceful demonstrations worked in the US in the past because you had guys like MLK rallying an entire nation of black citizens around a common ideal. Back then every person of color could rally around segregation laws since they impacted everyone, and when you get to the point of a million people marching in the US capital it's impossible to ignore. But now with the issue being police racism and brutality the issues are much more localized, someone in Baltimore is going to have a very different experience than say someone in San Francisco. It's hard to get a nationalized movement going when the discrimination varies from city to city
That being said, there were plenty of violent protests and race riots that happened prior to Rosa Parks and MLK, and without that who knows if they would have been able to get the attention to their cause that they did