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tptacekyesterday at 8:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Nonviolence was never proposed as a shield for activists against violence. He knew what he was up against.


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dripdry45yesterday at 8:22 PM

not so sure he did. Both King and X were “allowed” to speak out as much as they wanted… until each of them, realize the war they were fighting was not the real war. The real war was against the rich. Once Malcolm realized this, and that he was being played, and once MLK realized that non-violence was BS he started to drift more toward Malcolm’s end of things and direct that anger toward class warfare? That’s when they were each killed.