I believe the only reason we got the civil rights act was because the USSR was able to highlight the USA's hypocrisies to the global south - which is itself mostly non-white. It was a really bad look and presented a problem for American Imperialism, so they finally relented.
I mean, I don't think it would've happened without the civil rights movement either, just that you needed both.
That’s literally it. Most documentaries even mention this as it. It’s literally part of the non-violent movement playbook as laid out by Ghandi. The main goal isn’t getting the dominant culture to agree. The point is to SHAME AND SCARE THEM into agreeing.
Salt March and it’s bad PR for the UK during a tumultuous political climate, US and Civil Rights with the Soviets and other nations able to point out the hypocrisy of the US.
This is why I get annoyed when leftists claim MLK was a milktoast. Non-violent DOES NOT mean non-confrontational.
The movement wasn’t some petite bourgeoisie Sunday afternoon activity. It was around the clock 24/7 Harris many and engagement with the corrupt system To make it BUCKLE under the weight of protracted pressure.
Absolutely - and all the opinion polls showed that MLK was absolutely and universally hated by white Americans right up to his death. Shows he was just holding hands with white libs and praying for change or whatever.
Wasn't doing that he routinely criticized them as being worse then racists cause at least racists make their defense of the system understood. The white liberal’s defense of the unjust system while claiming to be in support of changing it, was to King a bigger betrayal.
I believe the only reason we got the civil rights act was because the USSR was able to highlight the USA's hypocrisies to the global south - which is itself mostly non-white. It was a really bad look and presented a problem for American Imperialism, so they finally relented.
I mean, I don't think it would've happened without the civil rights movement either, just that you needed both.
That’s literally it. Most documentaries even mention this as it. It’s literally part of the non-violent movement playbook as laid out by Ghandi. The main goal isn’t getting the dominant culture to agree. The point is to SHAME AND SCARE THEM into agreeing.
Salt March and it’s bad PR for the UK during a tumultuous political climate, US and Civil Rights with the Soviets and other nations able to point out the hypocrisy of the US.
This is why I get annoyed when leftists claim MLK was a milktoast. Non-violent DOES NOT mean non-confrontational. The movement wasn’t some petite bourgeoisie Sunday afternoon activity. It was around the clock 24/7 Harris many and engagement with the corrupt system To make it BUCKLE under the weight of protracted pressure.
Absolutely - and all the opinion polls showed that MLK was absolutely and universally hated by white Americans right up to his death. Shows he was just holding hands with white libs and praying for change or whatever.
Wasn't doing that he routinely criticized them as being worse then racists cause at least racists make their defense of the system understood. The white liberal’s defense of the unjust system while claiming to be in support of changing it, was to King a bigger betrayal.
Add to that the possibility of a more militant civil rights movement if nonviolence failed.