Dr. Caelus wrote:If they speak to their friends, their friends (on places like this website) tend to tell them it's not the time/place for it, and that they should go somewhere else to talk about it.
Is this based on personal experience? Because it can't (or shouldn't) be a generalization. It doesn't happen everywhere. I know this for a fact, because I have black people around me in both a professional and social setting, and I have never refused to speak to them about these things, not out of discomfort or anything else. And any time a discussion took place, I learned something from it.
If they get together to talk about it among themselves, and, say, petition their legislators about specific issues, they get form letters blowing them off.
One of the symptoms of a corrupt government on all levels. Where the wrath of these marginalized segments of society
should be focused.
If they try to mobilize to vote people out of office, they have to navigate ridiculous, petty 'anti voter fraud' measures designed to target their communities.
Such as?
If they get people to the polls, gerrymandered districts minimize their communities' impacts on the election.
Another symptom of corrupt government that should be addressed.
If they symbolically express their frustration by opting out of trivial niceties (e.g., not standing for the National Anthem), they're lazy.
It's a personal choice they're all entitled to. Doesn't mean everyone has to approve of it as a method of protest. And just because one doesn't, it doesn't mean that person doesn't agree with the message. Only the method of delivery of that message.
If they symbolically express their frustration by performing a different action (e.g., kneeling before the flag), they hate America and its armed forces.
Same as above.
If they take to the streets to march, people rage about the inconvenience of driving around them.
Some might, yes. But I think the majority of drivers rage about their vehicles getting damaged and even destroyed, simply because they happen to be in the vicinity.
If they go downtown to protest, people get nervous and the cops blockade the streets.
In most places, that's law enforcement policy, approved by the local or state government. You disapprove? Have the policy changed.
If the cops attack them, they're accused of attacking the cops.
Goes both ways.
If they participate in an unorganized movement (e.g., Antifa) they're responsible for everything *anyone* in the leaderless mob does.
That's the thing about covering their faces to prevent identity. Their covered faces
become their identity, and if one member of this so-called "movement" does something destructive to another person, accountability can be placed on all members through this shared identity.
If they find a charismatic leader to speak for them, he ends up dead.
The closest they got to a leader like that was colin kapernik, and he didn't die, just sold them out.
Even disregarding the antiBLM individuals sabotaging the movement by disrupting the protests, looting and burning isn't a form of protest, it's what happens when you tell a large cross-section of the populace that they need to sit down and shut up about what's being done to them, and remove all options for doing otherwise.
Yes, destroying your own community and it's economic structure is the only option they had. Please. As I said above, and in previous posts: this systemic discrimination is exactly that.
Systemic. Therefore, these attacks need to be directed toward the
system, set up long ago by the people who constructed the socio-economic structure of this country, which was continued by subsequent generations. In short, the federal and state governments. Not other innocent people who are part of this structure just like the oppressed segments are. They want to loot and burn things to get their points across? Do it against police stations, courthouses, and prisons. Not neighborhood mom and pop stores that rely on them for business and on which they rely for supplies in return. Destruction and stealing in their own neighborhoods is inexcusable, unintelligent and ineffective. They do damage to themselves more than anyone else.
Black lives matter.
