BLM Supports Looters

[Rev. Rye]

So, looking at the opinion that MLK must disapprove of looting, two thoughts immediately came to my head: 1) it's become shockingly common to whitewash MLK's views to make it look like he would support whatever sort of status quo the speaker in question would like to prop up, and 2) What would he actually say about looting? Fortunately for this issue, not only do we have a pretty big wellspring of information called The Internet where we can look up the thoughts of a man so prominent America named a public holiday after him, but looking at the events of the day, it's becoming more obvious that the most salient differences between the conditions he fought and the conditions BLM is fighting now are that it's easier to film racist brutality and distribute it, and that there's at least supposed to be some mainstream consensus that this sort of thing is bad.

Fortunately, it looks like the Brians have hit the nail on the head by showing two separate videos of King explaining that "A riot is the language of the unheard." How does someone as famously opposed to violence as MLK manage to speak in such sympathetic terms about tactics so diametrically opposed to his? Simple: as much as he abhors violence, he knows good and goddam well about the sort of conditions that made it happen in the first place, and frankly, this enrages him even more. And while we don't have different drinking fountains for black and white people anymore, the social stratifications that have kept black people lower on the social totem pole still remain, except now the powers that be are just bigger hypocrites about it.