As I Suspected...

Perhaps it is true that people whose formative years were after the 60s and 70s have no idea of what the role of protest and even civil disobedience are all about, and just cannot imagine anything other than a city council meeting having any important effect.Surprising attitude though from someone who thinks an armed rebellion/race riot is democracy in action.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Nicely stated and extremely well illustrated, Rrhain. Absolutely the best argument in this thread. MLK speaks out near the beginning of a decades long movement, at a time when all he had to show for his efforts was his church being bombed and the public including the president had nothing but utter disdain for his results so far.Unfortunately your efforts flew way over the head (and outside the heart) of the intended audience. But the rest of us got the point.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

History suggests that scope of the rights you currently enjoy were vindicated during the prosecution of criminals. That's why you have miranda rights and why confessions that are rubber hosed out of you at the police station are not admissible.Besides that, it turns out that lots of people (you excepted) see something particularly tragic in a 12 year old having his life snuffed out a couple of seconds after the police show up. A 12 year old with a toy gun isn't a hooligan of any note.I accept that you, personally, don't give a crap about the lives of black people who are selling cigarettes illegally, but that tradeoff of life vs property is one of the issues in 'Black lives matter'.BLM protests do indeed fall on your deaf ears, but who gives a crap what you think. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.