2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dr. King and the White Progressive [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Maybe people should read the whole thing.
"The similarities between the white moderate of the 1960s and the white progressive of 2015 are remarkable.
And yet many white progressives who are behaving more like the white clergymen who opposed King than the white allies who supported King are the first to criticize the Black Lives Matter activists for not being more like King. They are demanding that Black people follow Kings teachings.
But the King far too many white folks are holding out as an exemplar for current civil rights activists is not the real King. Its the whitewashed hagiographic version of King. It ignores that King was a disruptor. It ignores that King was a lawbreaker. It ignores that King was not beholden to protesting the right thing, at the right time, in the right space according to white moderates timetable."