05-30-2020, 02:39 PM
(05-30-2020, 02:27 PM)hollodero Wrote: There's all kind of weird stuff. Eg. I overheard Al Sharpton critisize the violent protesters for also destroying black-owned stores. I found this an utterly moronic thing to say.
Others blame white agitators, which I also consider weird. Others defend, others excuse. In reality, burning stuff down and looting is a) wrong and b) not helpful to the cause. It seems a real hard task to just state that.
Agreed. It does come across as rather racist, almost implying it would be ok if the businesses weren't owned by black people. I believe that a large percentage of the protesters were there to peacefully demonstrate. Angrily perhaps but without violence or looting. Of course there will always be a not insignificant minority who will use such a situation to engage in such behavior. Luckily, we don't tar everyone with the same brush because of this, unlike a protest in which one guy shows up with a Confederate flag, instantly making every attendee a white supremacist.
I don't know how many people are familiar with Nipsey Hussle. If you're not he was a musician who was very big on bringing money back to the community he came from. He was killed by a member of his former gang, a black man. I worked very near the scene of the crime. I cannot tell you the relief both among us and the community at large when it was discovered that the shooter was black and was not from a rival gang. If that wasn't the case it would have been a very bad month or more. Point being that any time you have sizable protests of this nature some, as described above, will use it as an opportunity to engage in violence and looting.
