• @Cryophilia
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    08 months ago

    Doesn’t mean he was right. It was luck that his anger coincided with a variety of other factors, especially MLK, that brought about civil rights legislation. I’m not saying he was useless, I’m saying he was a pawn. He was just the latest in a long line of angry, ineffective young Black people until MLK provided the right foil to his anger. He didn’t consciously do anything to advance the status of Black people, that I’m aware of.

    • archomrade [he/him]
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      18 months ago

      He was just the latest in a long line of angry, ineffective young Black people until MLK provided the right foil to his anger.

      Lol i don’t think you can say his protests or writing were ineffective.

      • @Cryophilia
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        08 months ago

        Perhaps that was the wrong word…what I mean is, he would not have achieved any of his goals without MLK.