Name:   copperline - Subject:   Copperline Date:   3/3/2016 12:18:46 PM

Martin Luther King wisely led the Civil Rights Movement in the direction of peaceful civil disobedience, but there was plenty of anger underneath that he could have easily ginned up.  Afterall, these people had several decades of lynchings, shootings, inability to vote or eat where they wanted, segregated to 2nd rate schools.   All of that justified their anger, but the movement's leaders worked successfully to tamp down violent retaliation among their supporters so we could get to the Civil Rights Legislation that we needed.    

So I'd say that there was plenty of anger underneath that peaceful movement.   As a nation, we were lucky it  was being constrained by it's leaders.   In Trump's case,  he is playing with fire as he stokes white fears of immigrants, muslims, minorities, etc.   Since he doesn't measure what he has to say, and is drawn to inflammatory & exaggerated verbaige... he is doing the opposite of what Dr. King did.

Its a mistake to see Trump's choice of messaging as benign.   It's going to make race relations worse, & religious intolerance commonplace.   If that what he thinks makes America great, well........ No.