"The looting which is their principal feature serves many functions. It enables the most enraged and deprived Negro to take hold of consumer goods with the ease the white man does by using his purse. Often the Negro does not even want what he takes; he wants the experience of taking. But most of all, alienated from society and knowing that this society cherishes property above people, he is shocking it by abusing property rights. "
-MLK Jr.Very good article though, more people need to say what this person is saying.
It's from this King speech, I highly recommend you read the section about Urban riots, he figured this all out back in the 60s and is way more based that the whitewashed high school history version of him.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/features/king-challenge
That section is indeed relevant and insightful. But I got a huge laugh out of this from the Vietnam war section:
The bombs that fall in Vietnam explode at home. It does not take much to see what great damage this war has done to the image of our nation. It has left our country politically and morally isolated in the world, where our only friends happen to be puppet nations like Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea.
Shots fucking fired lol
