Moderate, considerate and thought through opinions get massively down voted in this thread. Thinking problems through will always be a less popular than taking out the pitchforks and following the herd.

I’m as disappointed in humans as you are, but I did find a few more bright spots in this thread :)

Bad example. There was tons of violence related to this boycott. There is always violence in a U.S. protest because conservatives insist upon it.

From Wikipedia:

King’s and Abernathy’s houses were firebombed, as were four black Baptist churches. Boycotters were often physically attacked.

Two days after the inauguration of desegregated seating, someone fired a shotgun through the front door of Martin Luther King’s home. A day later, on Christmas Eve, white men attacked a black teenager as she exited a bus. Four days after that, two buses were fired upon by snipers. In one sniper incident, a pregnant woman was shot in both legs. On January 10, 1957, bombs destroyed five black churches and the home of Reverend Robert S. Graetz…