Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Douglass’ demand was specific, the abolishment of slavery. The people in the movement to end slavery even named themselves after their demand. They were called abolitionists.
What are the specific demands of modern protesters?
I remember during the Bush administration I asked an anti-war demonstrator, “Why are you protesting the war?”
He said, “Because the president lied.”
During the occupy Wall Street movement I met a participant. I asked the young lady, “What exactly are you protesting?”
She said, “Corporate greed.”
After a White police officer was not indicted by a grand jury for killing an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Missouri there was a rally in my home town of Pittsburgh.
About Post Author
