The US civil rights movement and MLK are often trotted out as examples of nonviolent resistance bringing change, but people forget that he was the carrot to Malcolm X’s stick. MLK brought change because the threat of Malcolm X arming the black community and calling for violence was hanging just over his shoulder.
The US civil rights movement and MLK are often trotted out as examples of nonviolent resistance bringing change, but people forget that he was the carrot to Malcolm X’s stick. MLK brought change because the threat of Malcolm X arming the black community and calling for violence was hanging just over his shoulder.
If only I had addressed that issue directly