Chris Smith
In reaction to violence, both Dr. Marin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael both organized social movements against white supremacy though each thinker’s ideas on how violence works had commonalities and divisions. According to King, in marches sometimes non-violence brings about more results then violence. For King this is because marches get the black people more involved and gives them something to commit too. According to Carmichael, the white versus black double standard where white people are excused when using violence towards blacks but blacks can’t do the same towards whites still sticks when it comes to using violence. Carmichael’s theory of America’s bias view on violence is extremely useful because it opens people’s eyes to the difficult problem of police brutality in the black community. Though I concede that Stokely’s view was correct, I still in insist that King produced more change with marches then with violence because that is what is remembered today and he is the one with the national holiday.
