It’s important to note that MLK and Malcolm X were friendly and saw themselves as allies.
There’s a big push of revisionist history where they want to portray it as them disagreeing about methods and arguing with each other over the best path forward. Because that’s what the wealthy want us to do, because it doesn’t work.
If you give a privileged population the choice between:
Status quo
Things getting better for someone else, but stays the same for you.
It’s really hard to get the majority of priveleged people to pick #2
But when you add in:
Shit gets much worse for you and much better for the people you persecuted
Suddenly #2 becomes a popular choice. It’s often the only way to get the majority to agree to equality
It’s important to note that MLK and Malcolm X were friendly and saw themselves as allies.
There’s a big push of revisionist history where they want to portray it as them disagreeing about methods and arguing with each other over the best path forward. Because that’s what the wealthy want us to do, because it doesn’t work.
If you give a privileged population the choice between:
Status quo
Things getting better for someone else, but stays the same for you.
It’s really hard to get the majority of priveleged people to pick #2
But when you add in:
Suddenly #2 becomes a popular choice. It’s often the only way to get the majority to agree to equality