Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a legend in the history of the United States civil rights movement. During the late 1950s and most of the 1960s (up to his assasination), MLK campaigned for official rights for racial equality under the law and in discrimination law to be incorperated by the US government. He placed a heavy focus on non violent protests and resistance, and he always condemned what he called a “vocal, numeric minority” of his group who thought that violence was the answer. His explanation of this growing voilent faction was that a “riot is the reaction of the unheard”.

However, this is the one thing that MLK got completely wrong, and this was likely a large part due to the fact that he never predicted that his movement would become either a borderline supremacist movement and the establishment post-millenia. In the modern day, riots are the voices of the overheard: those who are being heard, yet whose ideas are not being taken seriously. So, their solution is to attempt to force their way into the minds of the average man in their land. Simply being transformed from the avont-gard into the establishment was not enough for them; instead, they need permanent persistence in the minds of the population. And, how did they attempt to do that? They instead turned to oppressive violence to attempt to cement themselves into the mind of the populus.

And, can I really fault them in their evil plans? - you may ask. Yes, as I believe that this is the wrong way to go about creating social change - even if they were actually following MLK’s plan towards his dream. Their genius yet evil plot of persistence has succeeded: it is almost impossible to have a conversation about these things these days without having any of these riots or riotous movements and the mainstream establishment has ensured that they remain in relevance, even causing complete hoaxes to make sure that this happens.

MLK was a genius and we almost made it to his dream. But, sadly, his own side has been overrun by those at complete odds with that original goal, both in his view of equality and his non-violent focus. Hopefully, one day, we can make it back on track.