Both MLK’s and Ghandi’s images and public personas have been whitewashed by the history books to be used to get minority protesters to protest in ways that are easy to ignore. First they killed MLK, then they stole his memory to use to control Black people. Disgusting.
Which is why seeing period reports and reading their actual words feels so weird: it goes against the whitewashing.
I honestly believe the majority of the violence in the early days of the current BLM campaign was done by agents provocateur on the white supremist/cop side, and it stopped because it backfired and was working to help the BLM cause. Frankly, it has become apparent that there will never be justice through the system, unless the system is fundamentally changed.
