2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What's so terrible about saying "the system is rigged"? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)When she sanctimoniously said, in the late 1960s, that she couldn't "condone" civil disobedience.
If you didn't support civil disobedience, you were refusing to support the most effective tactic the freedom movement had.
Without the sit-ins and the marches and the bus boycott, there would never have been the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
In opposing the only things that ever made a difference, HRC was basically telling African-Americans to shut up and know their place and eventually they might get half-freedom, increment by increment(by now, if they were lucky and "reasonable", they might be able to use public restrooms on Thursdays between 2 and 2:45 pm, June through September).
BTW, Bernie had no "angry reaction" to the two women who claimed to be civil rights protesters in Seattle. He insisted that they be allowed to speak(the organizers of the event-a rally in support of Social Security, not a Sanders rally-offered to take the mic away from the women and hand it over to him, but he insisted on supporting their right to speak their peace) and he listened for twenty minutes while they attacked him and his supporters and everyone at the rally. At that point, he realized they would never let him speak, so he left. He didn't even disagree with anything they said. What was he supposed to do...drop out of the race and commit sippuku?