Im ready to die for a better world Ill never see
Personally, I'd argue that there are many issues that I'm willing to die for. But nothing I'm willing to kill for. Dying is inevitable, killing is not. And they aren't going to make a killer or a violent man out of me. Screw that.
outside of legislative action, like the Voting Rights or the Civil Rights Act, the only thing Trump and his cretins understand IS FORCE
how people do not get this is beyond me
I think you're mistaking non-violent resistance as somehow weaker or more passive than violent resistance. Especially for this day and age, I think that it's important to understand this difference.
I'm not a supporter of nonviolent resistance because it's cute. I'm a supporter, because it works. Fighting back only gives your opponent permission to do the same. And friend, we can't beat the US Government / police forces. If we're going into a fight, I don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight. Our only working path is to shun the people of power and gather the masses against them.
If throwing bricks at windows worked, I'd be all for it. It doesn't though. It just adds to their resentment and allies sentiment against you. But just because we can't raise our hands against them, that doesn't mean that we don't resist. We have human shields at their establishments. We block their calls. We protest at every level of government that we can, at every point that we can. We make it purposely hard as consistently as possible.
And you know what will happen? First, they'll ignore us. Then they'll laugh it off. Then they'll fight. And when they fight, we've got to make it hard on them. We've got to push them to a point where they over react.... we do sit ins, we lock ourselves to fences, we turn our backs to officials, we smoke pot in the streets in mass, we stop eating, we stop buying...and some of us could die as soldiers for the cause.. because we won't raise a hand, but we won't stop resisting either.
And after we've done enough of this, we'll have eventually gathered respect from the opposing side. They'll realize that we can't be pushed away, and, through our persistence, their only choices will either be to fight us and be hated or agree with us and be loved.. and we'll have them.
You've got to do this stuff the right way. You're outrage is understandable, and yeah.. this country still has a problem with race.. but the battle isn't over flesh, it's over hearts and minds. We NEED to persuade these folks. We can't beat them into submission.
