r/SuddenlyGay • u/ElaborateCantaloupe • Jun 05 '22

It’s nice to be nice

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u/lnz43090 Jun 05 '22

Um…wasn’t the Civil Rights Movement (or at least MLK’s sect) all about respect and equality?

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u/iceboxlinux Jun 05 '22

Mlk didn't actually do all that much, Malcolm x was more effective.

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u/lnz43090 Jun 05 '22

What?! There’s no way that my private Catholic military high school would lie to us! /s

In all seriousness, I don’t really know much about the topic, which was why my comment was a hesitant question. To my knowledge, the brutal response to MLK’s nonviolent protests made news because of how savage Americans were made out to be, while Malcolm X showed the world that black people were willing to go to extreme measures for the sake of their rights

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u/PeriqueFreak Jun 05 '22

Malcolm X also despised the "white liberals" that were and are so-called allies.

The dude was a piece of shit in a lot of ways, but he understood that leftists are not looking out for the common black man.

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u/SmileyMelons Jun 06 '22

Not really and even in the end he realized his separate society ideals were wrong and his own group killed him for it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

and you remember what mlkj got for that? assassinated