“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17967345
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What about the other groups that wouldn't have been with either side of this? There's more than two groups of people.
No there aren't; not in matters like this.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
The groups that didn't know it was happening? The groups that didn't believe in having a passive sit in and wanted to use non passive means? The groups that didn't want to go to a place where they felt unwelcome?
Yes, there are still a lot of other groups besides ones that just chose to stay out of it.
i don't know if this is disingenuous or dumb but the post is obviously not literally about the people who were sitting there and the people who were abusing those who were sitting there. it's about those who fought for equal civil rights and those who fought against it. and there's no third party in that fight.
Agree to disagree. The group doing the sit in believe in achieving their goal through peace. At the time their was also a large portion who believed that achieving equality peacefully couldn't happen. Then if you throw in Malcom X and his followers, you have a genuine 3rd side to the civil rights movement. People who believed MLKJ's methods wanted equality and to be seen as no different from any other people. Malcolm X wanted the equality part, but wanted no part of mingling with white people and believed violence was the answer.
X was assassinated in 1965. Allegedly because he pissed off Islam.
MLKJ getting assassinated was in 1968 and set off what is considered to be the end of the Civil rights movement by fed law passing equal housing opportunity laws.
But there's your three groups of people who wanted different things. The Civil rights movement wasn't "one law that passed". It was many over the course of over a decade, and the groups of people were going after different things.
Describe the groups.
I did in an above comment.
Lol imagine having this take seriously though.