tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503569476724915921.post3105302870478017809..comments2023-04-12T06:24:00.587-07:00Comments on The Civil Rights Movement : AIN'T SCARED OF YOUR JAILS (1960-1961)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503569476724915921.post-88818828346519667392013-02-12T14:47:49.471-08:002013-02-12T14:47:49.471-08:00It appears to me that the categories suggested nee...It appears to me that the categories suggested need to be amended to separate the NAACP view on nonviolence and the King version. The NAACP believed that litigation should be the main form of protest, and that activating the courts would allow precedent to be set for their cause. During these legal disputes the NAACP would be more willing to promote victims of protest in nonviolent ways because it would be more sympathetic to a judge and jury. This rational differs from King because they are looking for the right cases to try to protect rights where King is targeting people not policy. King's model is aiming at nonviolence because it seems to be a better way of winning the people over. I think there is some debate to whether King's views on winning the white people over would have also served in the NAACP's purposes, in having a more sympathetic white population would prevent white jurors from being as aggressive when living in a highly violent protest area.Walter Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976993454239431364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503569476724915921.post-34750620899117349492013-02-12T10:15:27.513-08:002013-02-12T10:15:27.513-08:00What's most interesting to me about this debat...What's most interesting to me about this debate is the way in which King frames it. Although he briefly addresses the moral legitimacy of violence as self-defense, he focuses much more on the practical considerations of nonviolence as a tool. He essentially argues that by choosing violence, blacks would be agreeing to fight on the terms of their oppressors and would necessarily be at a disadvantage. Nonviolence, then, is not a morally superior option, but a pragmatic decision. <br /><br />He also seems to be addressing the stereotypes regarding black men in general and black activism in particular, pointing out that whites assume and are prepared for blacks to be violent, a point which Franklin McCain reiterates when discussing his encounter with the policeman. In the face of the students' nonviolent protest, "the big bad man with the gun and the club" did not know how to react and was totally "defenseless." Nonviolence, then, in its unexpectedness redefines the situation and spotlights the tragic absurdity of the violently-enforced system of segregation.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699890793054059517noreply@blogger.com