• charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I'm talking about those politically uninvolved people. What use are they to a movement? They demand that we mainstream our demands for equal rights by simply letting us assimilate into the capitalist system without addressing the foundational flaws in how we approach gender in our society. Rev. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail sums it up nicely.

    "First, I must confess that over the last 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 the 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 can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."