This bullshit enrages me. Both Gandhi and MLK wrote at length about when, and why, and how to use nonviolence and when, why, and where it doesn’t work. What we’ve seen over the past 40 years is that it doesn’t work to protest police violence in America with nonviolence. IT DOESN’T WORK.
Moreover, the line about using nonviolence like MLK or Gandhi is inevitably used to suppress Black voices. Gandhi wrote that nonviolence only worked against British colonizers in India because he and his followers knew British troops would use violence themselves against protesters, including women and children, and that news broadcasts in Britain would shame the British public into withdrawing support for those troops.
In America, right now, the people who support and enable the police using violence against protesters revel in that violence, and it increases their support from those people.
