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Audio Cup. Good morning and happy Monday ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Defiant Podcast. Thank you for joining me. I'm your host,

Mejeed Padellen, aka Brooklyn Dad Defiant. Let's talk about protest. The very fabric of our nation's DNA is heavily steeped in the history

of protest. I mean the act of people crossing the Atlantic leaving England to form our own nation

was the biggest protest of all. The Boston Tea Party throwing a bunch of boxes of

tea in the water protesting taxation without representation.

The Revolutionary War, major protest. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus. Now that is defiant. In the civil rights movement, people peacefully sat in whites only diners to protest Jim Crow's segregation laws.

Millions of American citizens utilize marches, sit-ins, and burned draft cards in protest of the Vietnam War.

A professional football player, Colin Kappernick, silently took a knee during the singing of the

National Anthem to protest police violence against unarmed black civilians.

In most of these cases, with the exception of course, you know, of war, these protests were

nonviolent.

In all of these cases, people were putting themselves out there publicly in front of crowds to state their

opposition to injustice to how certain people were being treated or killed. In all of these cases, these protests were not convenient for people not engaged in the

protest. People just trying to get to and from work while a protest is blocking the road. very inconvenient, frustrating, and even annoying.

People affected by these protests, hey, I'm not the one of pressing you.

Why are you penalizing me? Is probably the most common reaction.

And I guess you can't blame them because they don't understand the nature of protest.

Protest is not meant to be convenient. Protest is not meant to be convenient.

Protest is not meant to be comfortable.

Protest, when it's most effective, is meant to make as many people as possible uncomfortable. Otherwise, who actually gives a

shit? If civil rights protests were quietly politely conducted in the

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