(White) combat vet here. Do you know how complicated rules of engagement are? Sometimes you can’t shoot back when you’re literally getting shot at by the enemy. I know 18 year olds that fully understand this after one ppt brief.
Yet a police force of academy grads, adults, years on the job, can’t use that same restraint and critical thinking on their own fellow citizens? That’s not racist? GTFOH.
People love to leave out the parts of MLK Jr speeches that weren’t focused on coddling the feelings of white people. He also gave a speech about riots, calling them the voice of the unheard. He and Malcolm X actually got very close toward the end of his life.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
That's the part of MLK talks that no one ever brings up.
ComeAbout on May 9th, 2020 at 18:17 UTC »
(White) combat vet here. Do you know how complicated rules of engagement are? Sometimes you can’t shoot back when you’re literally getting shot at by the enemy. I know 18 year olds that fully understand this after one ppt brief.
Yet a police force of academy grads, adults, years on the job, can’t use that same restraint and critical thinking on their own fellow citizens? That’s not racist? GTFOH.
Edit: spelling
DarkVikingMermaid on May 9th, 2020 at 19:10 UTC »
People love to leave out the parts of MLK Jr speeches that weren’t focused on coddling the feelings of white people. He also gave a speech about riots, calling them the voice of the unheard. He and Malcolm X actually got very close toward the end of his life.
HomerCloneThatLived on May 9th, 2020 at 21:26 UTC »
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
That's the part of MLK talks that no one ever brings up.