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Peaceful protest does not work. That is the legacy of the last 50 years since the civil rights movement. Not a lot has changed. Black men are still being lynche
by cmurf 6y ago
Peaceful protest does not work. That is the legacy of the last 50 years since the civil rights movement. Not a lot has changed. Black men are still being lynched. What would the conversation be if it weren't for video? Even with video, the conflicting autopsy from the county makes it sound like Floyd had either a pre-existing condition or drugs in his body.
I'm pretty irritated with the media, allowing various leaders to claim that they support peaceful protests. No they do not. Not Republican leaders, who consistently impugned the peaceful protests of Colin Kaepernick. They demanded these were vile, unpatriotic, and un-American. These are not mere talking heads, but the V-POTUS, and the POTUS, among others. They do not support peaceful protest, they hate it. They hate all criticism and all protests.
America is getting exactly what it deserves. It claims a contract of freedom and equality of all before the law. And this is provably, deterministically not true. And if it is not true, then why listen to any of it? The social contract is dust. If it is not wrong to lynch black men, then it is not wrong to loot, and burn, and pillage, and create widespread chaos. That is the central problem with loss of trust of the social contract, it begs the end to civil society, when we blatantly for all to see do not have a civil society for all. The deck is stacked in favor of some, and against others. Plainly. Clearly.
The contract we really have is Amy Cooper contract. The one where a black man asks her to put her dog on a leash per the law, and then she uses her whiteness as a weapon, and his blackness as a deficit, with the threat to call the police to get her way and her revenge and assert her white superiority. And knows the force of the police will make sure only one of them has a bad day. And then demand she's not a racist, right after having perfectly demonstrated racism. Hers and the system. That is the hallmark of institutional racism.