BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.message-squaremessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareI think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square15linkfedilink
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoBorn around 1985 here and…same. I think the biggest disservice regarding the Civil Rights era is talking up MLK every year…and not once mentioning Malcom X or the Black Panthers. MLK would have accomplished nothing if the alternative wasn’t them. It paints the picture that hippies and marches are all that’s needed. It’s not. The oppressors need to feel unsafe.
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Born around 1985 here and…same.
I think the biggest disservice regarding the Civil Rights era is talking up MLK every year…and not once mentioning Malcom X or the Black Panthers.
MLK would have accomplished nothing if the alternative wasn’t them.
It paints the picture that hippies and marches are all that’s needed. It’s not. The oppressors need to feel unsafe.
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