Folks have convinced themselves they would’ve been in support of things like the Freedom Rides and the sit-in movement but that is disproven by their discomfort with the young people who are protesting TODAY in 2020. 1/
They engage in ahistorical analysis to justify their ability to support disruptive, illegal— it was ILLEGAL to sit at a whites only lunch counter and to ride a nonsegregated Greyhound bus in the south—protests from the past while they poo-poo their modern equivalents. 2/
I’m telling you right now, folks’ stance in the current moment exposes them & tells the truth of the matter. Most of the establishment including the old guard civil rights orgs did not support what students were doing in the sixties b/c they also thought it was too disruptive. 3/
For folks who place more emphasis on policing the way people protest oppression than on calling for an end to the oppression itself, their historical parallel is not the students being arrested at the sit-in but the establishment who blamed the students for inciting violence. 4/4
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