trying to white-splain his message to his own son). This sort of miseducation omits the reality that all types of protests — both violent and nonviolent — have contributed to the progress achieved by Black leaders.
It is beaten into our minds from early childhood how “nonviolent protests” won the day, yet MLK’s statements about riots being the “language of the unheard” are never mentioned.It makes sense that those in power choose to promote this exclusively non-violent messaging, not just for the Civil Rights movement, but for the suffrage movement, for the queer rights movement, and for all other social justice movements in our nation’s history.