LurkerJ said:
"Rioting & looting sends a message, it works, our goals will be achieved if we keep doing this!"
Assuming this is actually true and it does work to riot, but work to achieve what? what are you goals anyway? what do you want?
Every subset of the society in the US has lost some of its members due to police brutality, you're not more likely or less likely to be a victim because of your skin color. You have no cause, and this is not gonna fix anything because you're rioting against the problem that doesn't exist EVEN IF we all hypothetically agreed that rioting and looting solve those problems.
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I will ask you a question, we have seen video and pictures of police brutality for these different subsets as you say. What we have not seen is enough outrage where those other subsets go to the streets and protest such brutality. The killing of white people by the police doesn't move white people enough to want reform, instead we hear all the excuses you can muster to continue with the status quo. The difference is that POC are tired of being killed, locked up and arrested unjustly. The difference is that POC are willing to take it to the streets, to Protest and try to initiate change.
Your comment is what I expect for someone who will do nothing. It will not be an issue for you nor will you care after the news cycle go to the next event. Its what most white people do. They say how tragic the situation is but its an isolated case. For decades POC have been telling you it's not isolated but you continue to ignore it. When you get video proof, you have a multitude of excuses to not do anything because the system works better for you then a minority.
So when White people say, White lives matter, POC think, you do not act like it. You are not outrage enough when it happens to your own to take it to the streets and protest, you do not make it a big deal and say that's enough, you do not call your government officials and say you want a change. You make no effort and thus nothing changes and when the next event happens it will be the same story.
So when I read statements like yours that says, police kill everyone as a means to diminish the issue, what you really trying to do is form a nice excuse to do nothing. To let it slide. The difference is that POC are tired of it sliding to the next incident and not being heard.