Fun5acres

Only trying to illustrate that peaceful protest was a major vehicle for civil rights and justice for a whole group of people that contributed greatly before it's inception(civil rights bill) and still do to this very day. A large percentage of our military is represented by the people that those protesters( Martin Luther King and the peace movement) were advocating for. I am sure that they don't want you(pro war mungers) cheering them on as they risk their lives while you sit behind a key board and advocate violence toward people that exercise these same constitutional rights that have helped them to gain their freedom.

Would you want these people to serve our country and still not be allowed to vote? The reason that it change was because people took to the streets in protest . You can bet that in those days there were guys just like yourself that hated protesters and some that would go as far as taking their lives because of their hatred and ignorance. Some wore sheets and hoods and couldn't go to the internet to rally the forces. This was long before Cyber hate.

I hope that you can now understand why bring up civil rights or race is important in a discussion about peace protesting in today's America. Use to be in the news all the time in the 60's and 70's. This was my first experience with a peace movement and continued through college and Viet Nam. After some investigating and research I educated myself to what their message was. In time it started to make sense to me and a lot of others who initially had no idea what all the noise was about. I see that now there is a holiday named in the honor of this great man of peace( Dr. Martin Luther King). How soon we forget.

To answer your question...believe it or not, there are whites that love what he stood for too!

fun5acres

Would I be correct in assuming that you are not black?