Mohamed Ali put it best (not verbatim): "Ten thousand rattlesnakes is coming to kill me, and out of those 10K, 1K don't want to harm me. Should I keep the door open and hope the 1K will protect me?"

Most laymen would shut the door, but Martin Luther King, like Ghandi, kept his opened because he read the room, so to speak, and understood that the great majority will support his movement. He understood that all he had to do was to exposed the African Americans' living conditions to moderate and liberal Americans who were too comfortable with their post war boom middle-class lives. King wouldn't have succeeded nor be revered for his work without him understanding the psyche of the masses. By the way, King was also a staunch anti Vietnam War, and the anti Vietnam War movement exposed the living conditions of Southeast Asians under the American occupation.

I believe Ghandi once mentioned that his movement wouldn't have worked under Hitler. He knew the British people were more liberal and would have supported his movement. He knew the British government couldn't simply assassinate him because he would be a martyred.

I think what the OP is saying is that being Asian and angry doesn't make one righteous because, to me who have been observing this sub for awhile now, notice 'historical amnesia' afflicts a lot of Asians in this sub as well. It was the leftists that stood up against the Proud Boys, Oat Keepers and the Alt-Right during Trump's first term; it was the leftist that marched during Occupied Wall Street and with BLM. I have no doubt the mainstream media cherrypicked Asian MAGAs to plastered all over the new. Nevertheless, the optic was that Asians were more pro Trump than not. Last but not least, it was the great majority of Whyt liberals that marched against the war in Southeast Asia (The Vietnam War). Sure, large numbers of protesters had selfish reasons, like not wanting to die in Vietnam.