Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company
by philwelch on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:42PM
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But they weren't protesting the proprietors of those businesses for complying with the law. They were protesting the law itself.
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Re:1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company
by woodruffw on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:14PM
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> But they weren't protesting the proprietors of those businesses for complying with the law.
Yes, they were. The Greensboro sit-ins began at Woolworth stores because they had explicit policies that went above and beyond those required by Jim Crow laws. They even sent a letter to Woolworth’s, not the state[1].
Edit: And, you’ll note: the Greensboro sit-ins didn’t provoke asymmetric police retaliation. What the students did wasn’t even illegal, it was merely against Woolworth’s store policies.
[1]: https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/greensboro-nc-stud...