@ErickaSimone

Malcolm is indeed the more visionary of the two. The key difference is that Martin was at the finish line, but Martin’s deep comprehension of nonviolence was seen by Malcolm as correct only after his hajj.

I see a parallel in derad. My greatest allies are those who I helped guide out of darkness. They know how the adversary thinks as they too thought that way but they also recognize adversaries are not enemies.

(If this opinion is naive, please mock me.)

@ErickaSimone

My error in not being clear.

I’m not the best communicator.

The “finish line” is Understanding why and how compassion defeats hate.

James Baldwin once remarked that Martin was special in that he had an insight that lead him to embrace nonviolence the deep and sincere way he did.

Audre Lorde commented the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

At root, pain is the tool useless to destroy hate. Pain underlies bigotry & hate.

@ErickaSimone

The root questions are the choice to inflict pain on others and self and the choice to view all humans as equally human, even me, even you.

Hate and bigotry are merely pain lying and suggesting a way around the “and self” part.

Pain is a damned good liar with an amazing marketing department but pain is also unintelligent, unimaginative, boring and predictable.

Hate inflicts pain on others to feel better. Never works.

Hate plus dehumanization is bigotry.

@ErickaSimone

Specifically, bigotry is the choice to inflict pain on others and send, and attempting to end run the “and self” part by designating some cohort of humans as not fully human or not human.

And bigotry moves laterally quite easily.

One who can hate one human can hate all humans, including themselves.

Tragic that these people in pain keep listening to pain’s lies, but hate and pain addle the brain.

Hate makes one cognitively impaired. Easier to deceive.