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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBasta! Enough! I intend to push back on the sanctimonious hit and run "riot" comments.
From neighbors, family, whom ever engages in eye rolling on this topic.
https://soletstalkabout.com/2020/05/28/how-to-respond-to-riots-never-solve-anything/
A quick roundup of things to say to Saltine Americans clutching their pearls over rioting and looting:
1) Rioting never solves anything!
This country was founded on rioting (and looting). The colonists didnt politely ask to be independent they started a war. Gays threw a brick. Black people rioted all over this country. Please let go of that falsehood and pick up a history book.
2) Rioting just gives people a reason not to support your cause.
Only if you equate property damage to human lives, and in that case, were you really supporting our cause anyway? If all it takes is people stealing from Target for you to say well
now I dont care about dead Black people then why are we even speaking?
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CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)Ninga
(8,275 posts)sop
(10,174 posts)And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity. - MLK
Ninga
(8,275 posts)brewens
(13,582 posts)statement on police violence against black people is twisted into being an unmericun protest against the flag and anthem. Sometimes all it takes is failing to bow down and express the required fealty to a cop by calling him officer. Fail to do that and they escalate the situation into an arrest or violence.
I can just imagine how black people feel about this. I'm a middle aged white guy and I'm not a peasant. If you think you need to be addressed by some kind of title, fuck you! To paraphrase Hank Jr., I don't say sir and I don't say ma'am, if you ain't into that, you can kiss my ass!