The Violence’s Problem and the Thirst for Freedom as the Main Contradictions
American society in 1960 marked the liberation from the shackles of racial and gender stereotypes, as evidenced by the proposed documents praising the values of American freedom currently reflected in various social movements, including BLM. Even then, judging by the text, society understood the increased police aggression towards the colored population. Defenders postulated, “We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality” (BlackPast, 2021). It is in vain to believe blindly that American society has always been liberal and free since conservative citizens lived both far in Asia and here in the United States. People had to work hard on themselves, their perception of the world and stereotypes rooted in consciousness.
Problems of Defenders of Rights and Freedoms
The 1960s society, swept by a wave of hippies, drugs, and lust for freedom at all levels, went on strike in factories and vineyards. The lack of protection of citizens (workers in factories, warehouses, women, and people of color) forced people to take desperate measures and offer not always rational solutions to problems. The main problem of such people who appeared before the society in the role of defenders or messiahs, perhaps there was a reasonably high level of charisma (but not extreme). This charisma was combined with a low level of education or lack of education in the humanitarian or political sphere.
The inconclusiveness of Arguments and Consequences
This trouble is especially adequate for the example of Martin Luther King, whom many historians and journalists dubbed the messiah; he died in the late 1960s, and with him died a symbol of the struggle for the rights of minorities. Therefore, their arguments did not seem more convincing than those who had higher and high-quality education. However, this problem becomes clear only from a retrospective point of view (HISTORY, 2021). Then the question of general education for the colored population was absent since the issues of aggression, cruelty, violence, low earnings, etc., were too developed among minorities. Although times have changed a lot, today’s American society shows that it has poorly learned the lessons of the 1960s. Stereotypes continue to permeate many members of our society, and this indicates that perhaps the defenders’ arguments were not very convincing in their time.
Works Cited
BlackPast. “(1966) The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program •.”Black Past, 2021, Web.
“Equal Rights Amendment Passed by Congress.”HISTORY, 2021, Web.