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BlindSquirrelFindsNuts

06/21/20 11:30 AM

#348535 RE: conix #348534

BLM vigilantes? Possibly you have them confused with the gun slinging Boogaloo Boys?
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crossball

06/21/20 11:54 AM

#348538 RE: conix #348534

BLM--the new vigilantes.....so BLM are the new vigilantes joining these vigilantes.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7038764/antifa-bus-george-floyd-protests/

That being said, it is so easy to label someone or some group vigilante(s). Income inequality is the bottom line that has to be addressed in America...everything else will follow. Tear off the cover. Every other label that is thrown out there avoids this main problem resulting in a waste of Father Time's time.
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fuagf

06/21/20 6:36 PM

#348554 RE: conix #348534

conix, When Martin Luther King was accused of inciting violence

By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Updated Jan 12, 2018, 10:22am EST


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Martin Luther King Jr. is cherished by most Americans, treated as one of the greatest peaceful protesters in history, and heralded for bringing people together to help combat racism in the US.

But it wasn't always this way.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, King was repeatedly derided by his opponents for inciting violence. The FBI even investigated .. http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7204453/martin-luther-king-fbi-letter .. him, fearing his potential impact on US society. The White House, meanwhile, seriously feared that the March on Washington would lead to riots and violence — something that seems completely absurd today.

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President John F. Kennedy's brother and then-US attorney general, Robert Kennedy, invoked many of these fears in justifying what amounted to a preparation for war in DC. According to Nick Bryant of BBC News .. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23790147 , Robert Kennedy told his brother during a tense White House meeting, "Negroes are now just antagonistic and mad and they're going to be mad at everything. You can't talk to them. My friends all say [even] the Negro maids and servants are getting antagonistic."

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We tend to demonize groups we don't agree with

https://www.vox.com/2016/1/18/10777146/mlk-day-martin-luther-king