(August 5, 2016 at 8:58 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(August 5, 2016 at 8:48 am)Bella Morte Wrote: I know full well what BLM are protesting. I've been following the movement since basically day one, keeping up to date with tweets and articles from people like Deray and Shaun King.
I watched all of the live streams of the earlier BLM protests. I think it's terrible that you got a service weapon pulled on you, and there's definitely prejudice within certain US police forces -- but disrupting innocent people on motorways while they are travelling to work or whatever isn't going to help your cause.
I'm sympathetic with some of the aims of BLM, but not their methods of protest.
But it is helping the cause. Disruption is a tried and true method of civil unrest and social change. The people who marched from Selma in the 60's did it. The people who boycotted the bus systems, causing massive underfunding and getting bus routes cut and having buses not getting repaired did it. The people who sat at lunch counters and marched in streets throughout the South did it. All the while, people were screaming to get them out of the streets, run them over, and they cheered when the fire hoses were brought out and the German Shepherds unleashed. BLM is taking the page right out of John Lewis' playbook.
People don't like being disrupted. As such it has a proven track record of bringing about social change. Now with any movement, there are people who will bastardize the cause and do damage to the goals of the movement. Especially one so large as BLM.
I don't always agree with it, but I can respect it.
Have you attended any protests yourself?
