John Lewis, civil rights icon, has died at 80

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John Lewis was part of the political process, he was more involved in creating change than mere protesters or rioters or organizers.

His goal was white acceptance and non violence. Not black empowerment.

Now here's the thing

Name me a white John Lewis ?

Name me a white man who in his struggle for freedom, justice and equality, land and wealth power and was assaulted by non white people that they hold up as an icon because he didn't fight bk ?

Name one ?

White folks love a Harry S Truman for dropping nuke on the Japs for Pearl Harbour

We can go down the line Jimmy Hoffa, Julius Ceasar, Braveheart, King Leonidas, Augustus Ceaser

"Violent protest" isn't glorified in our culture, and there's a reason for that. It isn't looked up to, it isn't hailed as something positive because it's not.

White supremacist culture is and has been based on violence and has been that way for 400 year. White people reward their killers like General Schwarzkopf, General Westmoreland, General Patton, General MacArthur, General Eissenhower. Those killers get ribbons, stripes and bars
(Medal of Honour, Silver Star, Purple heart with cluster etc)

It's easy to get someone to acquiesce at the barrel of a gun

Well it's not always. USA had guns and were more technologically in terms of military that the Vietnamese. They didn't acquiesce. So America still lost and got their asses kicked by them.

it's harder to deal with those whom you dislike and distrust and disagree with and achieve a solution for all parties and THAT is held higher in our society for a reason because PEACE is fleeting and it's not the norm of human history.

Peace is not the norm of white supremacist history. I agree.

But if your saying that white people are by nature un-peaceful then how is John Clarke's non violent approach going to work ?

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"American schools don't teach about slave revolts"....like John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry? Or Nat Turner? Or Denmark Vesey? Or when the slaves ran from the Cherokee and attempted to reach Mexico?

Yes and I'm pretty sure you wasn't taught any of that at school

African Kingdoms are relatively difficult to teach about what with their penchant for not making historical records of their dealings.

They find it very easy to teach you and other that the image you have of Africa Africa is that it's a violent hellhole, savage and cruel, a place of war, genocide, famine, slums, disease, failed states, refugee camps, etc. Aids, malaria and Ebola. Idi Amin, Mugabe and now Kony. Rwanda and Darfur. Somali pirates. Corrupt government officials. Child soldiers. Black men raping virgins to spread Aids. The heroes of this piece? White saviours, like Bono and Miss Jolie.

They have no problem teaching you that.

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There's no way in hell that each and every student learns about 100% of all cultures so I don't know what to tell you....cry harder?

Why do some white people in discussions on race with a black person often want to talk about feelings ? What's feelings got to do with anything ?