Non-violence was practiced, as individuals, by black Americans in the Jim Crow South as a means of survival--to not fight back against the grave injustices they faced every day lest they be beaten or lynched.  That's why they already understood it and could practice it together to change history.  We need to respond to what is happening to our government today in which various aspects of social justice were built through the hard work of many people over a number of generations is now being rapidly disestablished through executive orders.  But the use of violent resistance will probably lead to the imposition of martial law and worse--Trump's vigilantes.  Instead we need to find ways to resist nonviolently that reestablish the community of We The People.    

Mikulich's commentary needs thinking about but the commentary has been hijacked by a troll.  What happened Civil Comments?  and what can be done about this?