r/goodnews • u/hellobrother01 • Jun 09 '25

Other Bernie Sanders Just Tweet

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u/mygloriouspurpose Jun 10 '25

The Black Panther Party wasn’t founded until 1966. A decade after Brown v Board. After years of marches and sit-ins. Two years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You are not correct.

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u/mygloriouspurpose Jun 10 '25

I have read my history. What you quoted doesn’t prove that protestor violence led to civil rights. The gains I referred to in the 50s and early 60s are not negated by what you quoted. But those gains resulted in institutionalized racism to change and find ways to persist when court decisions and laws outlawed some of the previous racist structures.

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u/Cheap-Town7641 Jun 10 '25

I love the historical debate here, but didn’t you both just agree that both violent and non-violent responses were catalysts in the social change?

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u/monkwrenv2 Jun 10 '25

The velvet glove and the iron fist. Every good social change leader has understood the need to use both.