06-03-2020, 05:29 AM
I honestly have no idea. Ideally, I'd like to see cases of brutality vs unarmed black victims get taken up by the DOJ, but that seems pretty unlikely in the current administration.
I feel like if anything changes, it's general public opinion. In the past, particularly with the Trayvon Martin killing, the was a lot of vocal pushback against BLM and protests in general. This time around, despite the out-of-control rioting and damage, a wider cross section of people seem genuinely willing to view the brutality as something we need to address and quickly. A majority of the public seems to support the nonviolent part of the protests. I think that's a change from where we were even two or three years back.
There have always been white people that believed in the BLM cause, but going forward I see it becoming more mainstream. Even some hardline conservatives seemed pissed at what happened this time around. I guess that's the gist of what I think will happen. "Allies" will become more prevalent and even perhaps the norm outside of far-right circles. More people from outside the movement will show support. Whites still constitute a majority of the population, and if they've changed their minds in significant numbers about police brutality against blacks, that's a different environment than we've seen historically.
I feel like if anything changes, it's general public opinion. In the past, particularly with the Trayvon Martin killing, the was a lot of vocal pushback against BLM and protests in general. This time around, despite the out-of-control rioting and damage, a wider cross section of people seem genuinely willing to view the brutality as something we need to address and quickly. A majority of the public seems to support the nonviolent part of the protests. I think that's a change from where we were even two or three years back.
There have always been white people that believed in the BLM cause, but going forward I see it becoming more mainstream. Even some hardline conservatives seemed pissed at what happened this time around. I guess that's the gist of what I think will happen. "Allies" will become more prevalent and even perhaps the norm outside of far-right circles. More people from outside the movement will show support. Whites still constitute a majority of the population, and if they've changed their minds in significant numbers about police brutality against blacks, that's a different environment than we've seen historically.
