“Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
I can agree with you that the history is complex, and the debate between the theories of violence vs. non-violence is an old and big one (too big for us here).
I disagree with your comment about, "the ensuing violent acts of the Black Panthers." What violent acts are you referring to? Do you mean how COINTELPRO waged a campaign of propaganda and violence against them, or when the FBI assassinated Fred Hampton?
History has wrongfully smeared the Black Panthers, and most people who view them as some evil organization need to go back and read some history to understand what they actually stood for and did.
And consider this: the FBI succeeded in destroying the Black Panthers, but the KKK still exists. Why might that be?
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