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Look at how they depict the eyes for each character.

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Ouch. Absolutely, heart wrenchingly accurate.

Plus MLK wouldn't have been seen as a palatable choice by the mainstream without Malcolm X out there threatening violent revolution as an alternative. Every carrot needs a stick.

Civil rights act of '68 was passed because of the riots

One other point is people could peaceably assemble to redress grievances in the 1960's and early 1970's. That right has been substantially watered down and now all law enforcement has to do is claim the people are in unlawful assembly and start violent actions against them.

this message needs to reach Bernie Sanders

“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.” Shelley

And not the BLM type "riots" the riots in DC laid waste to downtown dc for 10 years

I mean we could even concede that *he* was, but "the movement", the masses of people without which he does nothing, were not.

4. The 1960’s Civil Rights Acts were largely just a restatement of the Civil Rights Acts of the 1860s/70s. It wasn't a great and momentous advance, it was a temporary and minimal concession.

Contrary to popular opinion, resolving societal issues through violence is the MOST American thing you can do.