Today we look back positively on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960-1, as products of a movement that understood how to protest “the right way.” The overwhelming majority of Americans in 1961, however, disagreed. Their contemporaries thought those disruptive students were doing it all wrong.

Good thing there wasn't any type pf backlash at the time. amirite?

We could do this with the anti-Vietnam War protests as well. They were profoundly unpopular at the time. Now we look back at those “annoying kids” and wonder why more politicians weren’t listening to them.

Neither here nor there, but I do appreciate how the civil rights-era protesters never felt the need to wear masks like SEAL Team Six operatives or police thugs. For me, there's just an extra connection on a human level to a cause when I see someone willing to put their face out there for a cause.

There's a demo out there that's going to get angry at any form of protest / structural criticism / disruption

Hey, I made that point yesterday and was told that I was equating Hamas and MLK. Gotta say, they had me wriggling in the crushing grip of their irrefutable logic!

Hmm, if only there was a way for major media outlets to get their hands on this info ...

Integrating Negroes is a strange concept in the Deep South. After all, African-Americans have lived there much longer than most whites.

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Another illustration of the principle that the only proper place to protest is in the past