Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History Highlight

As SNCC field coordinator Charles E. Cobb Jr. writes in his book This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, even the most committed Christian pacifists (including MLK) were armed and ready to defend themselves from white marauders. Nonviolence for most of the activists, Cobb told me in an interview, was a tactical choice, and a limited one: on all the famous marches, people still flung rocks at the police. “Nonviolent” just meant they weren’t trying to start a war, though most Americans didn’t even believe them on that point.