[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2btprEvdgg[/media]
This is basically a response to Trump flipping shit over the kneeling protest at one of the NFL games. It's worth checking out the whole video since he talks about how people view Trump and the reaction to the protest, though I'm mainly posting this since I remembered someone posting a clip of the video between 7:56 and 10:12 in one of the NFL anthem threads, which was basically him saying “People have to be uncomfortable in order to advance civil rights, especially white people". I was pretty conflicted on what to think of it back then, but no one really reacted to it at all when it was first posted in that one thread, so I'm posting this partly so that I can get people's opinions on it.
I mean he's right. The Civil Rights Era didn't happen because everyone was comfortable.
is there anything actually left to be done on the civil rights checklist? afaik all thats left is social issues, except for whatever may be on the chopping block under the trump admin.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;53079845]I mean he's right. The Civil Rights Era didn't happen because everyone was comfortable.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I guess you got a point there.
It did sound somewhat reasonable to me back when I first heard it in that thread. It's just that I remembered someone using the argument as a justification for some of Manveer Heir's (aka that one BioWare dev who had a "white tears" mug) [url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7O-66NVwAA9MqZ.jpg]tweets[/url]. Of course, it shouldn't make the argument any less valid especially since you bring that up, and I could have easily come to the conclusion that the guy defending Manveer used the argument incorrectly, but I tend to doubt myself a lot as someone who feels he's an idiot who lacks critical thinking and parrots other people's opinions.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;53079845]I mean he's right. The Civil Rights Era didn't happen because everyone was comfortable.[/QUOTE]
I really like MLK Jr's quote on the topic of "white moderates"
[Quote]We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
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And
[Quote]First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.[/quote]
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