I posted this quote to /r/baltimore and my post was removed. lmfao

Idk why we quote MLK... He's mostly just the media baby for the black movement back then when actually hindered them quite a bit

And I fear the ones criticizing the rioting for not being peaceful won't give a damn one way or another. They're not there to win over.

-"why is it the default?"

Because that's what the system wants the oppressed to do. They want us to engage them in ways that will have little to no affect. They want us to think that if we take the moral high ground all will be well, while they commit some of the most perverted moral lapses ever seen. MLK saw this near the end of his life, and started to question the practice he had made popular after they were co-opted to be used to slow the movement he represented.

If violence never solved anything, the powerful wouldn't fight so hard to push a message of non-violence. Violence threatens them, non-violence does not.

No, people should not. They should use real nonviolence. Peaceful protest is not nonviolence. Nonviolence is used when violence would be used. It is not expression. It is not a celebration with friends, a street party, a tent city of cohorts that looks like a rock concert. It is disruption, holding to truth, respectful maintenance in the face of forces that work to arrest, brutalize, stop the actions one undertakes. It is flooding the court system with arrestees, walking where one is not permitted to walk, doing what one is not permitted to do. True nonviolence refuses to lift a finger in violence, and not just for strategic purposes of avoiding the blowback of violent reprisal. The truth is that oppressors are more complex than their own oppression. They are people, and you could have been them had the deck been dealt differently. But it does more than refuse to act violently. It takes action. It does things. Some are symbolic, others are transgressive. But the action must involve crossing some line or other, getting arrested, getting beaten.

Rioters risk this as well, of course. But they also harm many people. Innocent people. They get their message across at far too great a price, just as drone weapons don't just hit the right targets. Yet even if only the right targets could be hit, to do so betrays the truth: even the oppressor is in fact more than they appear. They are complex people with good and bad things about them. The reduction of violence, its imposed narrative of black and white, really is part of the problem. Going from police brutality to rioter brutality really does mean feeding the beast of brutalization.

People recoil against peaceful protests for good reason. But just remember that self expression is not nonviolence. Nonviolence takes place where violence would be used.

Like how during Katrina, black people "looted" while white people "found". Black people are "thugs", white people are "troubled youth". Yeah, that's true.

Nope, a riot is a positive. it's a giant fuck you to whiteness.

It's patronizing to say "riot" is a demonozing word. The youth aren't protestors, a protestor is the black preacher at the front of the march standing proud as he sits on thousands of donations for the church and nothing more.

These aren't protestors, these are fucking RIOTERS

Rebellion and uprising are fun words to use.

Indeed it's almost always used to refrence people of color in this country. But I don't like the way racism is simplified like this. All sorts of people have been have been subject to propganized words such as "riot". They are trying to say these people are "bad". It just so happens the poor and oppressed hear are black. So I'd like to change the "protesters of color" to "protesters of minority" or protesters that, if successful , could seriously upset the status quo. Jews have always been subject to the same Shit. Native Japanese are subject to this now(though probably not nearly as bad). Its not Because they're black, it's just because they're different and that gives a place for people to be able to vent hate and grant them a feeling of superiority. Black is just the way this country indentifies the outcasts and oppressed who have been subject to the same Shit for whateve religion, color, culture,etc. For the history of the world.

White people use it to describe themselves too sometimes, but never when taking some form of meaningful action against anything. Usually just to display dismay regarding entertainment-sports.