Once again, renouncing the violence, arson, and the like.
I do find something curious, though. And we are going to talk about the Preacher.
I'm going to say everything is true. Yes, he was beaten unconscious. Everything happened the way he said. As a human being hearing about another human being suffering, it fills me with bile and anger to see something like that.
In this situation, I'm wondering what the end game here is bringing this up.
Because if we're trying to say that one action of impropriety discredits a movement entire, then we could have thrown a dart at a list of the thousands of cases of impropriety at the hands of the police and disbanded the whole thing.
No? That's not the case? We have the looting, fires, and violence? Completely get that. So, I'll take a look at the whole Police Violation coffer and I can find... Sexual misconduct, false arrests for quota and lulz, being on the take, violence of course, habitual harassment, selling drugs they seize, connections to organized crime... Damn, there's a lot to match here.
Not everyone rioting is a saint. Yeah, I get it. It's a riot. If protests were enough to be listened to, we wouldn't have had to have a riot. But now people have reached their breaking point. Not only did Covid hit the community worse than any other, but so did unemployment and sanctions. And adding Arbery, Taylor, and countless others that weren't named, it all set off.
And just as
Seanchaidh pointed out, if you trust a criminal organization to say who the actual criminals are... and then you believe them? You have no idea of what's actually happening in the world. I do not say all black people are innocent. There are of course black people who commits crime. But the same as any criminally oppressed group. And the millions of dollars being put into place to police them would be better spent being put into place funding education, job reforms, and opportunities to get out of the oppression.
Then this country can turn its sights to the Native Americans who have suffered every moment since this place was deemed 'America'. The Latinos who just came here for a better life who have been fought against in every way, shape and form. The Asians who have been denied the ability to earn because Coronavirus was called the Chinese virus and people don't do enough research to understand it wouldn't spontaneously come out of anyone who looks asian.
Just... everyone stop being jerks and start being human. You know how you would react if people didn't treat you like a fellow human being. Don't deny the rage you would feel for others who are actually going through that now.