Let's see, in the 1960s:
We have anger over long-standing racial injustices, magnified by the media.
We have protests that disrupt both private businesses and public infustructure.
We have mostly peaceful demonstration with some more radical and violent elements.
We have protestors and protest leaders who travel to multiple cities to participate in protests.
We have those protestors labeled by government and public as 'anti-American', 'leftists' and 'communists' and fear spread that they are pushing for changes that disrupt accepted societal norms and families.
And we have a strong government reaction that includes documented beatings of peaceful protestors as well as heavy police violence, tear gas etc. against both peaceful and violent protestors.
Nope, I see nothing similar between what happened then and what is going on now.
Houndoc, I think one area where we are not seeing eye to eye is what we call 'protester'. I feel as though you are lumping the criminal element that is hijacking peaceful protests to incite violence, as protesters. Perhaps I'm wrong, but your point of 'protesters' being labelled as 'anti-American' is not how I or much of the country view peaceful protesters.. The criminals driving the anti-American, terrorist agenda, including Antifa, are who most of us view as anti-American - because they are by word and deed.
I'd say one of the biggest differences between the two scenarios are that 1) the bloody sunday march was not violent until certain police agencies made it so (not OK or justifiable), and 2) the media was not stoking the racial divide fire quite like it is today because 3) 1965 wasn't a presidential election year.
I look at today's hijacked protests and the police response as a lose/lose situation being caused by the lack of care from the local elected leadership. The violence and police response are pawns at this point. As Marc explained, if the elected leadership cared at all about their communities, why have they not sat everyone around a table in order to begin discussions, which can then lead to healing and understanding.. and CHANGE. I view the lame democratic leaders letting their communities to go to sh!t so that LE has to push back in order to keep peace for the greater citizenry, which is and will be violent; then the cherry on top for the democratic leaders is Federal agencies getting involved to curb the domestic terrorism (a Federal crime) which is then tossed back on Trump to smear elections.. We're all sitting ducks in a giant game of burn America down at whatever cost to get Trump out of office. That's it. Feel free to disagree with all or some of this, but I've never seen the situation more clearly than right now. Everything is an attempt to bring the US to it's knees for a globalist agenda, and Trump stands in the way of that agenda.. BLM, Antifa = pawns.
I am curious when we protest police killings... 118 cops killed in the US this year alone; more than a 100% increase from last year and also higher than blacks that were killed by cops last year. The numbers don't add up for the collective rage that is being unleashed by the protest hijackers (domestic terrorists).
