Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, calls for 'peaceful' protests sound obnoxious

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Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, calls for ‘peaceful’ protests sound obnoxious
As Martin Luther King Jr. preached, we must reject peace that prioritizes calm over justice — and work toward building a positive peace instead.
In his March 1956 sermon â€œWhen Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to a headline in a local Alabama newspaper that read, “Things are quiet in Tuscaloosa today. There is peace on the campus of the University of Alabama.”
The headline was referring to the day after the university expelled its first Black student, Autherine Lucy. Since setting foot on campus days earlier, Lucy had become the target of a white mob, which attacked her and started a riot. Wanting to restore the so-called peace, the university responded to the violence by making Lucy leave.

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