Oh for Christ’s sake
I don’t at all agree with Bash Back’s tactics. For a lot of reasons. But this ain’t one of them:
Look at the Civil Rights movement, I dont see minorities storming anything and doing this sort of thing and look what we have in the White House. I hope those guys are all arrested and fined.
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This is stupid, Marquette County,Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 8:07 a.m.
O.K.; let’s look at the Civil Rights movement.
Black students storm the whites-only Blue Boar cafeteria and sit in. Louisville, Kentucky.
Black students sit in at a whites-only lunch counter. Nashville, Tennessee, February 1960.
Sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter. Jackson, Mississippi, 28 May 1963.
Black students arrested for storming a whites-only library and illegally reading in it. Jackson, Mississippi, 1961.
Oh, and while we’re at it:
Eric Evans and other members of the Afro-American Society announce the end of their 36-hour takeover of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University. 20 April 1969.
You know how you can tell when some discussion in mainstream politics is going to have absolutely nothing to do with the history of the Civil Rights movement? Answer: if it starts out with someone saying Look at the Civil Rights movement….