You don't believe a patriot can be a protestor? American history is full of protests, seen as forging our essential national character. The defining image of the original Patriots was the Boston Tea Party, a mobbish act of property destruction. One of the most celebrated moments of the Civil Rights protest movement was explicitly an appeal to patriotic ideals.
"One white woman, who watched King’s speech on TV, apparently changed her mind about the nature of the civil rights movement, telling a journalist for the Atlanta Constitution that 'after it was over, I was proud of the Negro and proud of America. I’d thought they were just going to criticize us white people. He made my country seem so beautiful I felt like I wanted to shake his hand.'"
You don't believe a patriot can be a protestor? American history is full of protests, seen as forging our essential national character. The defining image of the original Patriots was the Boston Tea Party, a mobbish act of property destruction. One of the most celebrated moments of the Civil Rights protest movement was explicitly an appeal to patriotic ideals.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/28/when-protest-is-patriotic/
"One white woman, who watched King’s speech on TV, apparently changed her mind about the nature of the civil rights movement, telling a journalist for the Atlanta Constitution that 'after it was over, I was proud of the Negro and proud of America. I’d thought they were just going to criticize us white people. He made my country seem so beautiful I felt like I wanted to shake his hand.'"