• jettrscga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    I think the woman with water poured on her is white and sitting with the black woman.

    My understanding of the two sides were the white people attacking them and the white people sitting with a black person to protest segregation.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      42·
      3 months ago

      IMO that’s why it’s 3 sides.

      The first side is the black people who want to be able to sit at the same counter as other people and order lunch.

      The second side is the white people who want to keep the apartheid system in place.

      The third side is the white people who were willing to take the abuse in order to be allies to the black people who were facing the discrimination.

      To me, the allies are a different group. They are putting themselves in harm’s way for an abstract principle.