I genuinely struggled to figure out which wildly inaccurate claim to highlight in this reply. The one I chose, just because it's completely backwards, is this one. King don't start to understand Malcolm X towards the end of his life, Malcolm X started to understand King.
Malcolm returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca with a completely different view on race relations. Much more in line with King's view. He had already distanced himself from the Nation of Islam. Sadly, he was assassinated shortly afterwards and this change of heart is less well known by casual observers than his previous more militant and racist stances. King, for his part, was frustrated by the slow, order-above-all approach that he saw from many white liberals. But he absolutely never wavered from his commitment to non-violence.
Please don't talk about things you know nothing about.
As for your claim that "we've had years of non-violence and it hadn't moved the needle," well, how can I argue? Segregation is still the law of the land in the south, black people are still denied the right to vote or buy houses or to attend schools with white students. No black person has ever held elected office (I mean, just imagine something as ludicrous as a black President or Vice President!! (haha)), support for interracial marriage is still at only 6%, just like it was in 1958, instead of at some pipe-dream number like 96%. Yep, no progress at all! The civil rights movement wa a total failure!
And the "violence" in France? Yes! Right again! Thank God all of these "structures and property" you mention don't belong to anybody! Nope, the citizens of France didn't own any of the houses or cars or businesses that were set on fire for no discernible reason. They don't face any material losses, often in the poorest districts of their cities, that there'll be no possibility of compensation for because they were carried out by nameless, faceless thugs.
And further emphasising your brilliant rebuttal, that destruction brought Nahel back from the dead and led to productive sweeping police reform in France. It absolutely didn't lead to greater authoritarianism from the police, as evidenced by a statement I linked to in the article.
What a shame that Nahel's family couldn't see this as clearly as you do. I'll be sure to tell them they're wrong for thinking that the appropriate way to "scream for justice" is to call for reforms that might actually prevent another tragedy. Clearly, stealing smartphones and setting fire to cars is the way to go.
