MLK’s message to those Democrats who always tell us to just “wait for a better time to vote third party”
MLK’s message to those Democrats who always tell us to just “wait for a better time to vote third party”
I was going to ask: do you think white moderates are willing to learn yet? But just ten minutes after you posted and half an hour before I got here, there's a what I'll assume to be a white moderate saying that you've misunderstood King. jfc it don't stop lol.
do you think white moderates are willing to learn yet?
I genuinely don't believe they ever will be. Pessimistic take, and just shy of separatist? Maybe. But I genuinely don't believe they'll ever learn, and as a result, I don't believe they'll ever be safe for us.
Yes, Dr. King was wary of so called moderates, but to extrapolate this as support for third party candidates is fallacious. What does voting third party have to do with the direct action that Dr. King is championing in this quote? Non violent direct action such as protests, marches, and sit ins were a very specific strategy to expose social tensions and force society to deal with them when it would otherwise be easier to ignore them. How does voting third party achieve this?
"In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." -- Kwame Ture
Since you're apparently incapable of identifying connective tissue, the link here is it's always "this isn't the right time", "this is the election of our lives", "we can't brook dissension now", "shut up and fall in line" every four fucking years; and y'all say the exact same shit every single time. You foist the exact same malfeasant grifter motherfuckers to 'reduce harm' in ways that never seem to trickle down to the ghetto. It never ends. You are that moderate. You are the eponymous Fox. If you weren't, y'all would have 'pushed Biden left' enough to get the border camps closed by now.
I think you may have mistaken his meaning here.
Let's try another one, then.
"The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the 'smiling' fox." -- el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz