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(3,483 posts)Watts riots happened. When the Rodney King riots happened. When Trayvon Martin happened.
When all manner of heinous things happened.
But like clockwork, it happens again, the handwringing begins, and the gradual fading out of memory begins.
You cant fix stupid. And if you cant fix that, you cant fix America.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Trump has been trying to destroy this country for years and he keeps getting closer all the time.
dlk
(11,566 posts)And we can find a way
vapor2
(1,248 posts)but he will sit back and watch. He is so sick that he literally enjoys this chaos.
And the chaos and violence will help him come election time. One way or another. Doubtless why his followers are egging all this on.
wnylib
(21,463 posts)work against him, although he will try to use it.
jeffreyi
(1,940 posts)wnylib
(21,463 posts)physical closeness of all those people. There is still a pandemic going on.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)protesters are young, but they're also mostly black and are liable to spread it further among shockingly vulnerable populations.
WaPo: "Disproportionately black counties account for over half the coronavirus cases and almost 60% of the deaths."
Those deaths of course are not all of black people, but medical reports have always listed the patient's race for a reason. And these riots are in those areas.
wnylib
(21,463 posts)to maintain distance while protesting, it wouldn't be so bad. But with the chaos of the rioting, they are thrown together more.
zak247
(251 posts)Were down for the count...
Duppers
(28,120 posts)It's the psychological essence of RW rednecks all over the country and tRump has been using this to his advantage from the beginnings of his reign of terror.
Bama Refugee said it best above:
"You cant fix stupid. And if you cant fix that, you cant fix America."