So many people are upset about property damage...

[PTWB]

44. I have three questions for you...

1. How long should we protest peacefully, while being ignored, until we try more forceful methods to change the system?

2. In the event that we spend the next 65 years just like the last 65 years and black men are still being murdered by the state with regularity, what do you suggest we do?

3. How much economic pressure do you think it would take, in the form of rioting, vandalism and looting, before corporations got sick of losing profits and demanded their bought and paid for representatives in government actually do something?


At this point we don’t have power. Money is power and money is speech and it belongs to corporate special interests. No, burning the mom and pop flower shop to the ground isn’t going to change anything directly. But simultaneous riots, fires, vandalism, curfews, and unrest in hundreds of American cities just might.


People have reached the breaking point. This is the next phase. This is what happens when peaceful protests are ignored.

Colin Kaepernick knelt. That was a peaceful protest. It got a lot of attention but ultimately was easy to ignore.

People in power are learning something this week.