Zaac
Well-Known Member
Temper tantrums? By all reports thus far, it's been peaceful apart from one person who tried to be an idiot and throw stuff at police officers, resulting in an arrest.
You asked about why there seems to be mention of a riot every time there's something that seems unjust happening with a black person. Maybe history taught black people that letting injustice happen is a really bad idea.
Maybe other races should take note and quit laying down and accepting injustice, and maybe more solidarity should be shown among not just a single race, but among all humans in this country. When a seeming injustice happens, what are the options? Right now, you can't just let it ride through the courts. The system is corrupt. Can you honestly sit there and say you don't think our leaders and judges and courts are not corrupt, not influenced and led by money and power?
I don't care if you're purple. Short of turning the system on its head, peaceful protests are where we're at right now to get any attention whatsoever on issues that matter to citizens. Unless you have a few million, and the average citizen does not ...and should not have to have that in order to matter.
Well said Gina B.
Most of us on here have probably never encountered the type of injustices that you're talking about so it's difficult, but not impossible, for us to grasp the need to protest in such a way.
I think if people would think back to the way they felt after OJ( mentioning him because someone else did) got acquitted, and equated feeling that multiple times a year, they might start to understand how Blacks somewhat feel.
It's again like always seeing the blond haired, blue eyed missing woman on Dateline and the national news but never seeing the same type coverage for the young Blacks who go missing.
It's often the squeaky wheel that gets the oil.