[ I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. ]
Enjoy the next 4 years morons! As a straight white middle class male, I'm completely safe.
So I'm gonna cozy up with some popcorn for a few months and watch the world burn. And when these ignorant fucks finally realize what they did to themselves, maybe I can be bothered to fight again....
It looks like I managed to get myself banned before I could ask the many brave warriors in the thread what they did to "fight" beyond showing up and ticking a box on a ballot.
There is not a single cracker in America who can complain about other demographic groups voting for Trump.
[ I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. ]
*emphasis mine
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
The wall is too kind for these people.
It looks like I managed to get myself banned before I could ask the many brave warriors in the thread what they did to "fight" beyond showing up and ticking a box on a ballot.