Now, if you read @WhipClyburn's tweet more closely, he says "burn baby burn" destroyed the student movement. I believe he's really talking about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after Stokely Carmichael became the chairman. Since he's dead, I'll speak for him.

It's Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) that in 1966 co-coined the phrase "Black Power" during the March Against Fear after James Meredith was shot by white supremacists.

SNCC became more revolutionary, but this was a result of white supremacist violence against activists.

As I wrote here, activists in the Deep South were being murdered (Cheney, Goodwin, Schwener) & Black folk were being bombed (16th Street Baptist Church bombing by the KKK killing Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. https://abernathymagazine.com/stokely-and-the-birth-of-black-power/

It's in this cauldron of the KKK bombing Black churches, COINTELPRO infiltrating the Black Panther Party, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission that SNCC basically dropped the N from their name. They had an epiphany...

Stokely Carmichael was no fool. Just as Black Southerners were no fools. They knew that with the KKK bombing churches, COINTELPRO infiltration, and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission spying, they had to protect themselves with groups like the Deacons for Defense.

And actually before the Deacons for Defense, you had Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams in Monroe, North Carolina who were NOT about to let the Ku Klux Klan kill their family.

Then in 1963, sister Gloria "Glorious Gloria" Richardson, an organizer with the Cambridge Non-violent Action Committee (a SNCC offshoot), helped spark the Cambridge Uprising on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

So by 1966, Black folks were already rising up. https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/retro-baltimore/bs-md-ob-gloria-richardson-20200219-a2yo4hak2bd7xh2shorhtknwui-story.html

Basically, by the time the slogan was uttered, America was already on fire. The slogan didn't hurt the student movement or SNCC.

American Apartheid did that.
COINTELPRO did that.
The Ku Klux Klan did that.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission did that.

This is why reading history is so important. The Great Uprising took place from 1963-1971. There were over 750 urban uprisings during this period.

Uprisings were sparked by conditions in urban areas, police violence, and in 1968, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

So to conclude, neither Stokely, SNCC under Stokely, nor the slogan "burn baby burn" somehow "destroyed the student movement" or destroyed SNCC.

Black people were already rising up, inside and outside of SNCC. They were repudiating the nonviolent & churchy approach to freedom.

Neither slogans nor urban uprisings hurt Black freedom seeking. Both reveal the terror that is American Apartheid and call for an immediate response.

Both @WhipClyburn & @OWasow reduce the Black Freedom Struggle to supporting Democrats (who don't support us without pressure).

When people put more emphasis on the responses to American Apartheid (i.e. slogans and uprisings) than on the actual conditions fostered by American Apartheid, it lets white supremacists and the specter of American Apartheid off the hook. It also demonizes militant Black protest.

Even worse, it obscures the ways that militant Black protest is MORE effective in getting America to respond quickly and authentically to Black communities grievances. Examples include militant Black abolitionists pre-Civil War, the Deacons for Defense, and the Great Uprising.