Media and nonviolent actions

To add to your point Kami, I think we can bring back Gramsci's two points about how hegemony unfolds. They are: the "coercive control" and the "consensual control" with the latter type being more impactful because people voluntarily submit to the state's control and this reproduces the state's dominant ideologies. However, with the awareness of the movement, people's consciousness break the "consensual force" and jeopardizes the legitimacy of the state. How Blacks Live Matters became such a large movement was through people's questioning of the coercion and in turn, this leads them to challenge and attempt to break the previously robust consensual control toward how Blacks were treated.

Although I accept nonviolent action as a very honorable way to gain equality within this context, I would like to make a comment of how Malcolm X proposed a very contrasting argument in terms of non violent protest. Both activists were fighting for the same cause, but believed in different methods. Where Martin believed it was acceptable to use nonviolent protest, Malcolm believed that it's a crime for anyone being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend him or herself. Although completely contrasting views, it is evident that both of these values are exercised within groups such as the BLM movement to gain equality in the given context. However, the exact same conflict of views was evident during the 60s civil right movements as well. There were groups of nonviolent protesters and violent protesters. Perhaps this suggests that one cannot work without the other, that the two rely on each other to drive change?