2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If MLK Were Alive, He'd Make White Folks Just as Uncomfortable as Black Lives Matter [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Studying Art history right now. As you know as a history buff, we started making marks to create art before we ever created a writing system. I love history and see people with a shallow view of it.
Just watch people. Notice where they leave stuff out. You'll see soon how much more I know than I will ever be given credit for. Most of these folks never even read one slave narrative or any accounts from regular people in the fight, yet they try to kecture and do it paternalistically, hence the push back. I have been reading history since I was two. I lived through the LA riots, it is all related.
Many are here just to give a self serving view of history and politics in general. Heck, look at how much is left out of our books!
Many folks will say they did stuff in retrospect that they did not do at the time. You can tell by their lack of full understanding of it now, that they were not in it then. History is being made right now as we speak.