This is a powerful speech ONLY in its delivery. His passion makes it emotionally powerful (note: a passion and anger that is usually condemned if one disagrees with content of a speech).

He is right to highlight the differences in content, in the politics & demands during the https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1297707698788728832

#CivilRights movement & today. But he is very wrong in creating a picture of 'peaceful protests' as if Martin Luther King Jr and his followers were the only ones who made a difference and created change.

Even #MLK recognised that his peaceful protests could not be understood

without understanding the importance of the other non-peaceful protests. The celebration of this speech today because Deberry demands peace is about blaming contemporary protestors for the violence, about celebrating a form that protests can take (the form acceptable for those

wanting to keep the status quo), about ignoring the importance of politics in any fights and protests. The celebration of his speech is based on the same lack of politics than the current lootings.

The problem of the protests today is not the form that they take, peaceful or

non-peaceful, but the current political ideas ( #WhitePrivilege rather than #racism, identitarian politics) and lack of political ideas that inform these protests. The lack of positive visions for the future, the politics of identities used by ALL sides, the blaming of individuals

rather than the understanding of society & SOCIAL problems, the lack of #political objectives that have been replaced with managerial & technical aims are the problems that need to be addressed.

Peaceful & violent protests can both be mindless, ineffective & very unproductive

for solidarity. #Looting for the sake of attacking properties while blaming individuals or lying/sitting peacefully on the floor while trying to make others feel guilty or blaming individuals for social problems can all be bad because of the contents & aims in these protests. The

wars of independence in the 20th century, the fights against slavery, the American & French revolutions, many of the protests during the labour movement were not peaceful protests and yet, we have gained a lot from them.

We have to develop a politics of #solidarity, not based on

identities but on common interests, if we are fighting for #freedom, for a world where the majority is not at the mercy of a small minority, for better conditions of life, for a world where all humans will have the potential to develop. Entering the discussion about the form

(peaceful/non peaceful) is a way of avoiding politics and an old way of demanding the status quo.