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Originally Posted by TheBossInTheWall
A lot coming? How do you know?
Group decision to riot? That seems unlikely. My guess is people get so angry by how fucked up they're treated everyday that they lose it. Or there's assholes who just want to steal and break shit. But yeah rioting doesn't help anyone.
As far as I can tell people were wiping their asses with the confederate flag. Makes sense. It was used to represent a desire in the south to continue slavery. My guess is to you it does not represent that, but it has come to represent racism, slavery, lynchings, etc. People are pissed off and they want to express it. Very punk rock.
The first million man march was peaceful. Sure its lead by an anti-semitic asshole, but it was peaceful. Not much has changed since then except due to media(cell phone) people in general are more aware of the police brutality and high numbers of black deaths from police. And of course its now more ground into the minds of people who were already aware.
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There was a wipe your ass with the American flag game that went around facebook for the better part of six months. Thousands of pictures of people in the BLM movement doing just that. The Confederate flag didn't bug me so much, its a clear representation of people not having any clue about history. There where thousands of happy, loyal, black men who flew that flag high and fought for it, but that's conveniently left out of history. If you ever get a chance, watch the Reparations episode of Penn and Tellers Bullshit! It explains it best.
I lived in St. Louis my whole life, I still have a lot of family there. The stuff that is happening there is not because of how people are treated by the government or the police, whats happening there is because of the way people are raised to believe that the white man and the police are the enemy. I went to a school that has sense been shut down in the heart of the south side, my friends would yell stuff out of the car windows at police when they drove by, friends that had never had a legitimate reason to be angry at the police but who had grown up their entire lives being told how terrible the cops are.
People aren't interested in being peaceful anymore, I will be very happy if this march in October is peaceful and everything goes smoothly, but I will not be surprised in the least if it isn't and doesn't.
Just remember this, statistically, if you are black man, you are 322X more likely to get raped by another man than you are to get into a physical encounter with a police officer. We have been trained by the media to think this happens all of the time, but its really a rarity in the big picture. Yes there are bad cops, but they are few and far in between. This painted picture of how terrible police are is putting more and more good cops lives in jeopardy.