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Those guys were under the boot heel, and had no direction but up. I'd be more optimistic for the future of humanity if they were white dudes with everything to lose, agitating for an oppressed minority.
That's the entire point. They were under the boot heel, but still looked up.
To suggest that a bunch of agitated white people would be more inspiring than those historical heroes is... it's beyond words. It really is.
Those white people did exist, for the record. But most of them would have a lot of unkind words about you idolizing them and minimizing black heroes.... because white people did that constantly even at the time.
Please reconsider... everything.
You completely missed my point. I wasn't minimizing your heroes, and I'm not American. We don't all think like Americans. Please expand your world view....
How exactly did I miss your point? Was it the part where I linked a list of agitated white people with something to lose, who were fighting for an oppressed minority? Was there some other point that I missed?
Did you read about the agitated white people who were shot and killed defending oppressed minorities? Did that give you more faith in humanity, than stories of Martin Luther King Jr., and John Lewis?
I really cannot stress this enough: please reconsider everything. For someone who doesn't think like an American, you sure are talking like one.
My entire point was that if people who were "crushed under the boot heel" could still be optimistic about the future of humanity - could still successfully improve the future of humanity - then you can too.
But you, instead, want to hear about white people.