While most of the MSM has been working hard promoting the myth that the month's long violent rioting and looting we experienced last year was really "mostly peaceful protests" and what happened in Washington D.C. on January 6th was an attempted coup and unprecedented assault on the capitol (old Joe even declared it was worse than the Civil War), it appears that there are some on the left who are a bit perturbed by this narrative. Apparently they don't think that the BLM and antifa mobs got their just due. Those weren't "mostly peaceful protests" or even riots they declare. That was open rebellion and they're proud of it.
Last week on the NPR podcast they interviewed an African-American studies professor at Yale, Elizabeth Hinton, during a book club segment. Hinton was on promoting her book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Both Hinton and the host pushed the idea that this was open rebellion even naming the segment "Black Rebellion: Mass Violence and the Civil Rights Movement."
As the host, Danielle Kurtzleben, started the segment:
Personally I find it refreshing that not only are they not pretending that they were "mostly peaceful protests" and were calling it exactly what it was. Rebellion -- a.k.a., Insurrection.
Last week on the NPR podcast they interviewed an African-American studies professor at Yale, Elizabeth Hinton, during a book club segment. Hinton was on promoting her book America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. Both Hinton and the host pushed the idea that this was open rebellion even naming the segment "Black Rebellion: Mass Violence and the Civil Rights Movement."
As the host, Danielle Kurtzleben, started the segment:
You talk about these clashes as rebellions -- and quite pointedly, not as riots. It's a very meaningful choice. It really kind of shapes how the reader perceives these clashes. Tell us more about how you made that choice, about the differentiation to you.
Personally I find it refreshing that not only are they not pretending that they were "mostly peaceful protests" and were calling it exactly what it was. Rebellion -- a.k.a., Insurrection.
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