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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
From John DeAngelis, an Orioles exec, responding to a TV announcer who was complaining about the effects on baseball fans:
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Meh. A better response would have been "Black people are being killed and abused by police throughout this city and you're asking about a fucking baseball game?"
Also, since when did Nelson Mandela preach non-violence? He founded Umkhonto we Sizwe specifically because the killings of peaceful protestors led him to believe that non-violence was not sufficient. (Baltimore, et al: Take heed.)
Even while on Robben Island he didn't preach non-violence. He preached a non-racial society, so that black activists would not envision a post-apartheid society that took revenge or excluded whites, but rather that worked with people of all races who accepted that society.
He renounced the armed struggle after being freed from prison, but it's not accurate to suggest that was a come-around to non-violence as a guiding principle -- rather than a recognition that, at that time and in that environment, this was by far the best strategic move.
