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I have to admit the same. That is not surprising behavior for youth and they are linked through music and social media. Social media is very integrated and copy cat. I call what’s going on the “George Floyd challenge”. Challenges, from the outside looking in, seems to be to post online yourself doing the last latest viral trending behavior, whether it’s a dance or something like the “Ice bucket challenge”. Youth kind of just copy whatever is viral and trending. So while superficially it looks like a positive....I wonder how deep it goes. I still can’t rap my head around “why now”? Maybe it has to do with how people were pent up for a couple months. We have had horrific incidents like this in the past....it did not result in whites coming out like this. Maybe it happing in a majority white community in a neighborhood where many whites live...made whites comfortable to march in that community, as opposed to when it happens in mostly black communities. Whites in other cities were inspired by whites in Minneapolis.
I mean, I just saw on Twitter Romney is marching with a group of Christians! This is way different.
Systemic racism is real. Until it gets rooted out, i'm not sure how long this unity will last. The Rodney King tragedy was suppose to be a turning point too. How well did that go?
Rodney King didn't work because the officers got off. The only officer that truly saw justice served was that one in Texas that shot the guy she thought was in her apartment when she really entered the wrong one.
Systemic racism is real. Until it gets rooted out, i'm not sure how long this unity will last. The Rodney King tragedy was suppose to be a turning point too. How well did that go?
It's not real so it can't be rooted out. If you want to argue this then lay out the details here for us to pick over. Otherwise accept that it's a staw man to fight against in perpetuity, and give money and power to those in control, while nothing of note actually gets done.
Oh here is one for you. White woman calls police on a guy dancing in the street. The caller was a quarter mile away from the "dangerous dancing man" and still called. The guy was restrained and put into custody. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...ing-in-street/
I see way more division, but I stand on the other side. I always knew black lives mattered like literally everyone did, so there no reason to affirm that over other lives. I don't believe there is systemic racism or that our country was founded on racism or that we need to bring down the system to eliminate racism.
I also don't align with the politics of the BLM org so if you're mindlessly throwing your money and support to them because you don't like racism you're actually doing more. Maybe you agree with it all or maybe you don't but the majority of people don't think about that.
To be honest, I am seeing a lot of unity and not division right now.
Not me. The recent events have caused division, not unity.
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