❤️ if there is one force you can count on in this world, it is that I am too fucking stubborn to give in

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In short, the King era non-violent protests relied on a mass media environment still in it’s infancy, the continued presence of public intellectuals and public intellectual debate, and the willingness of this infant media apparatus to broadcast events generally absent polarized framing as tools.

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So white people could literally see the violence with their own eyes rather than as framed by other people which revealed to them something of the truth of the struggles of southern Black folks. This tactic is inapplicable in our modern media context.

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In fact, some core tactics of King’s movement relied heavily on a particular kind of backlash from white people (racist and otherwise) which does not not have a modern equivalent due to changed social and cultural norms as well as the political climate.

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Facts. There are a lot of parts of King’s strategy with SCLC and SNCC that absolutely cannot work in modernity in part due to legislative changes that make some tactics unsound and others downright dangerous.

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