Bill Whittle’s first reaction to videos of violent protests across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer was rage at the lawlessness. But this conservative’s second take was shaped by new information about about the instigating incident, and a new insight about police who take a knee with the protestors. And now Whittle’s doing something rare in the field of punditry.
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59 replies on “Rage Revoked: A Conservative’s 2nd Take on George Floyd Protests, Kneeling Cops”
Hi Guys,
We are once again at a crossroads where we are told that we must have a national conversation about Race. I would love, Love, LOVE to have that if it were an actual honest conversation. The problem is that we still cannot be honest with each other. Too many want to do what’s easy & not face some really harsh truths. It should not be that blacks, who make up only 13% of the population, make up so much more on virtually every crime stat sheet. But while some in the black community may have legitimate grievances, few are willing to commit to some much-needed introspection. Why can’t we talk about rampant fatherlessness, black-on-black violence & crappy education in the inner cities? Why is any black person who aspires to any heights outside of sports or entertainment not ‘genuinely’ black? Yes, racism exists; it always will. But we had it sufficiently marginalized in this country. That’s not to say that we cannot all do more, but until these and other questions can be forthrightly discussed, we’re simply spinning our wheels. BTW, I’m half-black. My father was born in 19040 Arkansas, my mother in 1943 Berlin Germany, & I came to the US in the early 70s when being mixed race earned you quite a bit derision from all sides. Thank God, my parents taught me that I should use failure & other negative experiences as a learning tool, not a crutch.
Why is it that ANTIFA is identified as a bad actor in these riots, but BLM is not identified as a bad actor in these demonstrations as well? Wasn’t BLM originally formed as a bad actor? Didn’t they expressly chant in previous demonstrations that they “want dead cops and want them now?” But no ones seem to be talking about the (possible) complicity of BLM in the riot parts of these current demonstrations.
Antifa and BLM are both bad actors. They are linked at the hip and their ideology is the same. BLM was an active participant in the riots
I watched the whole video and came away Confused, Bewildered and Befuddled. WHY?
I listen to the DAN Bongino Podcast and he has spoken extensively on the unnecessary and disturbing death of Mr. Floyd plus the PROTESTS, RIOTS and INSURRECTION that resulted. He categorized the people participating as Protesters, Rioters composed of Thugs, Criminals & Looters and finally the INSURRECTION composed of BLM, ANTIFA and other anti-American groups including a Foreign presence and OTHERS. Each is there for a specific intent, purpose and result.
THE Protesters see INJUSTICE. What is truly confusing is that the reaction from President Trump and his administration was immediate both in word and deed. Mr. Trump acknowledged the Protest and sided with them. He called on the Justice Department to gather all the necessary forces under its wing and Investigate the matter. The Officer responsible plus the 3 other Officers who stood by and watched were all suspended upon an Investigation. Soon after the knee on the back of the neck Officer was arrested and charged as were the other 3 Officers. They all will face a Trial to prove Innocence or Guilt WAS NOT JUSTICE SERVED? Yet the Protesters still wanted JUSTICE? WHAT? exactly is their Idea of Justice? Did they want those 4 Police Officers immediately hung just like in the Oxbow Incident so Justice would be served? When Protesters then participate or merely stay and observer the RIOT, WHAT? then is their PURPOSE? Do they become secondary participants to the RIOT that ensues?
I can understand an off Duty Police Officer joining a Protest out of Uniform BUT an OFFICER wearing the BLUE represents something much MORE higher than mere participation. Pictures are worth a 1000 1000 words in this situation I would suggest.
A Police Officer has SPECIFIC duties and I don’t believe that taking a knee is in their job description. That are to serve and protect. HOW? does one serve and protect while knelling?
I would contend that at the heart of the Protesters PROTEST is their believed “FACT”/”truth” that America is Systematically RACIST and taking the knee supports that assumption which I also believe is 100% wrong.
“Even the typical display of human kindness or benevolence comes not from that person’s compassionate nature but from his unconscious desire to enrich himself with the intoxicating feelings of being a good person. Forget to thank him or acknowledge his generosity and watch how quickly how his goodness turns into repressed resentment or outward indignation.”
And now we’re discussing “De-funding the Police”? So we’ve officially crossed the line into insanity. Who, with half a brain, thinks that’s a good idea?!
Optics and perception. People can look at the same evidence and come to exactly opposite conclusions. Take geological evolution, for example. Some people look at the Grand Canyon and say, “Do you realize a little water and lot of time carved out this canyon?” And another person who understands flood dynamics will say, “Do you realize a LOT of water and a little bit of time carved out this canyon?” They’re both looking at the same evidence. Were they there? Did they witness the event? The same goes with this picture. Did you hear the picture say, “We surrender” in submission to the protestors? Or did the MSM who published this picture spin the caption to cause a visceral reaction?
No, don’t kneel, hug. Hug shows understanding and sympathy, kneeling is submission.
Th only thing bad here was the actions of the cops, not a bad system that can be blamed ON THE COPS! The cops only enforce laws that POLITICIANS write, go to your legislature and complain to them.
These bad police outcomes generally have the same thing in common: Man commits crime, man resists arrest and a bad cop over-reacts. You will never get rid of every bad cop, but you can quit resisting.
This cop should have been gone long ago, but George Floyd was no angel. He had an extensive criminal history including doing time for robbery because he held a loaded gun to a pregnant womans belly and threatened to kill her and the baby while 3 other men robbed her home.
But guess what, had he not resisted that day, he would still be alive and we would not have riots all over the country with dead innocent victims and burned businesses.
It’s not black and white, it is good and bad. When bad men run into bad rouge cop it is trouble.
I’m an ex-cop and if I had been one of the other cops I would have stopped it. In fact if I had just been present as a civilian I would have gone to jail for tying to stop it.
Too damn late now!
I see a lot of shallow thinking here.
There’s no such thing as a gray area. But there is such thing as complex context. The right thing to do comes down to a black and white decision but only after fully comprehending the entire context. I see very few commenters demonstrating that they’re doing that.
For what is a man, what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say all the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
I see irony in the fact that police officers “took a knee” to show solidarity with protesters, when the cause of all this anger was another police officer who “took a knee” to a suspect’s throat. Had the protesters misunderstood their intentions, a bloody riot might have ensued.
Bill, Scott & Steve,
I’m sure you know who Candace Owens is. Her take on George Floyd is worth your consideration. The “Protesters” have created a false image to idolize. No reasonable person condones Floyd’s murder, but the statistics don’t justify the claims of systemic racism in our law enforcement. If you haven’t viewed Owen’s Facebook post, I suggest you do so.
https://www.facebook.com/realCandaceOwens/videos/273957870461345/?vh=e&d=n
Her analysis is brilliant!
Seems like we would get a little more participation in this thread from Management, given that the position is a reversal on a previous position, and a position outside the norm for Management.
My view of the ‘kneeling’ phenomenon:
Kneeling at a church: Showing humility and respect to a greater power.
Kneeling on somebody else’s neck: Exercising power and control over another individual. 9 minute kneeling on somebody’s neck shows a complete lack of respect for that individual’s life.
Police kneeling with protesters: Demonstrating recognition by the police that kneeling on someone’s neck until they die is not what police really represent.
Politicians kneeling with protesters: a cheap parlor trick.
Activists ‘making’ a young women kneel before them to atone for their ‘white privilege:’ A racist move to denigrate somebody else because of the color of their skin. (citation – 43 minutes into this video)
Note: I realize the there have been reports on the veracity of the Activist representing BLM, but the fact remains that they are portraying that the proper response is for some people to be subservient to other people for actions that yet other people may have performed.
Glad you put this in there Dave Donald. While I certainly agree that George Floyd’s death was a murderous tragedy, I am appalled by the “Take a Knee” or in many cases “Get on Your Knees” phenomenon. This is reverse racism at it’s worst. A crime was committed. Sentence those responsible. That’s what happens 99.9% of the time. But in this case we need to have social upheaval? The statistics say there is no “systemic” racism or police response to criminal acts, so how about the MSM own up to that fact? Then we can discuss why we are allowing cities to be looted and burned – for ANY reason!? There are deeply sinister, and powerful forces at work here, guiding this calamity, leading us toward civil division, and maybe war. And anyone who does not see that is in denial.
I would have liked to see you put kneeling police into the context of the bigger picture. Others are able to do it, you should too. Sorry guys.
Bill, Scott and Steve,
I have to agree with the consensus in these comments. There is no reasonable evidence of institutional racism in the policing in this country. The prevailing narrative in minority communities is that our entire society is systemicly racist. It is based on this false narrative that these massive demonstrations (which are called peaceful while numerous participants flip off, spit on and shout obscenities at the police who are trying to keep things peaceful).
Bending of the knee is taken by those who hold the systemic racism view to be acknowledgment of their point of view as true and an admission of collective guilt. Placating by weakness might provide some reduction of high emotional rage, but it encourages more of the same and expectations of greater tolerance of more physical forms of expression in the future as such attitudes grow and isolated incidents happen.
What exactly do they want? It isn’t justice for George Floyd or the officers involved, that process is underway under the tender supervision of a former Nation of Islam associate as state AG. Good luck with that. Thank you George Soros. It is what they call social justice. This is a concept of collective and restorative justice based on equal outcomes across identity groups. This as much a fiction as socialism and for similar reasons. Individual justice is the only concept consistent with equal protection under the law.
This concept of law enforcement based on social justice has led to federal consent decrees, civilian political oversight and legal actions that have resulted in a reduction in police function under affirmative action selection of leadership and crushing administrative regulation. Read the Second City Cop daily blog to see how this plays out in Chicago. Police are in a no win situation and more police and justice reform being pushed for will only place further obstacles in the way of individual justice and security, especially in minority communities. See Bob Woodson’s interview by Tucker Carlson earlier this week for the heart of the problem.
Bill I was indignant when I first read the ‘headline’ about this event until I read the whole story. I then realized the cops were kneeling with the protesters not to them. Like you mentioned yesterday we have to be ready to look beyond the initial ‘frame’ of reference.
How many WW2 videos have you done? We keep hearing about how appeasement doesn’t work, yet here we are with a sizable number of the “conservative” media demanding appeasement of violent mobs in the streets. My ancestors didn’t fight to build this country so I can take a knee before a bunch of spoiled millennial street thugs and accept second class citizenship in my own country. Attitudes like this are the reason mainstream conservatives couldn’t even conserve the ladies’ room.
Sorry Bill… Lost me on this one… Link below says it for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qwif8PF1EI#action=share
See also, Ace of Spades. http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=387596
Tucker is the strongest voice of reason in this whole debacle. The MSM are condoning reverse racism and destruction of our country.
Bad move. Kneeling is a sign of submission, not a sign of empathy and it will be taken as weakness which only invites further misbehavior.
Fifty-five years ago Frank Zappa penned the lyrics to “Trouble Comin’ Every Day”, as inspired by the Watts Riots of those times. His descriptive lines and deeply troubled personal humanity are as relevant to today’s events as they were in their time, and in many other times in between. He seems to have been prescient enough to realize that what he was seeing would be repeated often and far into the future as reflected by the verse:
“You know we got ta sit around at home
And watch this thing begin
But I bet there won’t be many left
To see it really end”
But this time really does seem different in many ways, what with the outside influences trying to affect key election year perspectives with “professional” agitators and the like. It is very disheartening to watch, and will be very interesting to see how it eventually all plays out, but in the end I’ll bet that Zappa’s lyrics will continue to be germain well into the future, though I truly wish it wasn’t so!
Before I divorced my wife, the marriage counselor asked “Would you rather be right or married?”. That simple question allowed me to defer divorce and give reconciliation every possible chance. When we later divorced, I did so wholeheartedly, with a compelling vision for a better future – not just for myself, but for my kids and wife too. In 2020 retrospect (pun not intended) I don’t regret that decision for a second. I confirmed the differences were irreconcilable and then oriented us all towards the better future.
This is situation is weirdly similar, but instead of a marriage between husband and wife, it’s like one between Individualists and Authoritarians. And, please pardon the analogy, and the “kids” seem analogous to the protesters who in this case are sadly ignorant of the issues truly at stake – fundamental property rights, the role of police in securing those rights, a color-blind judicial and legal system, etc.. (Although tempting, don’t get me started on analogies for the mass and social media!)
As Steve beautifully reminded us, the kids are our future and our greatest hope is that they support each other. Within that hope also dwells our greatest fear; that they can divisively tear each other down.
So this analogy seems to provide half of the proper answer.
Taking a knee may powerfully symbolize empathy, but as citizens deeply invested in this institution these United States, we want better ways to do that – Ways that don’t increase our greatest fears.
Gents, I want you to continue to be the greatest champions of those better ways, and in so doing, make sure our enemies can’t use them against us – I.e., Don’t let us appear to excuse the violence or seem confused.
Unfortunately, all the empathy in the universe could not save my marriage. Similarly, perhaps the best we can do now is improve our understanding of thresholds that must be fortified. You guys still are the very best at that.
So, please continue to help us seek reconciliation and even perhaps give us a unifying vision, but much more importantly, please continue to lead in our building good fences (as in Good fences make good neighbors. That, in fact is what I subscribe for!)
Just the facts mem
Just the facts
https://youtu.be/1qwif8PF1EI
There are peaceful protesters out there and they’re doing the right thing. The sad fact, though, is that they don’t matter any more. Just like peaceful Muslims, of which there are millions and millions, they are so overshadowed by the violent rioters and looters that the peaceful ones can no longer be seen through the flames.
I agree with Bill here, the police who are acknowledging what the peaceful protestors are about are doing the right thing. I don’t care how they do it – take a knee, bake them cookies, give out hugs, doesn’t matter – they deserve that recognition because there is a problem and it needs to be addressed. Yes, more white people are killed by police both in absolute numbers and by percentage but there’s nothing wrong with focusing on the black people. It still serves to lower the number of unjustified deaths for all.
However, the violent ones are obstructing the good here. It’s too easy for most people to not think and so not distinguish between the violent and the non-violent. And most people can’t or won’t think the way they need to about things like this. And there are too many who think that violence and looting are legitimate means of protesting. I know some like that personally. (I wonder how many would think like that if their own businesses, places of work, or homes were destroyed. Would they be OK with that because it deals a blow to what they perceive as “the enemy?” It’s easy when it’s someone else’s property that is smashed and stolen but are they willing to sacrifice their own lives and livelihoods to “the cause?”)
Dealing with this requires much deeper thought than the overwhelming majority of people are willing or able to devote to the problem. They spout their simplistic answers and feel good about themselves. And the problems never go away.
I happened to be married to a woman of Black/Native American descent and we both call you out. First of all, I worked in law enforcement my entire military career and though it is a microcosm of what my civilian counterparts contend with, the dangers I faced, along with fellow MP’s was very much real.
Secondly, this isn’t about racism and I dare say a majority of “thinking” Americans know this. Had it been a White Anglo, Hispanic, or some other race, this would not have even registered on the screen.
Finally, law enforcement was not called to the scene because of a donut sale. It was a legitimate call and they went. As for the officer primarily responsible for Floyd’s death, he was wrong, however, what started this incident? Answer that question and you answer who is primarily responsible for being in the ground.
This has nothing to do with racism, except in the minds of weak minded emasculated liberals who cannot see past their blinding hatred for America.
My wife, who is a full Colonel in our US Army, has zero tolerance for stupidity. She worked hard all her life to obtain what she has. As her biggest fan I’ll tell everyone right now, she made it on MERIT, not pigmentation.
Just like in any profession, there are bad apples everywhere and law enforcement is no different.
Instead of people pointing a finger at COPS all the time, look at yourselves and the failures within your communities and most importantly, your families.
Know God, Know Peace
No God, No Peace
I listened to the entire episode before reacting.
The officers who are taking a knee are effectively taking responsibility for something they wouldn’t do in the first place. These “protestors” are looking for submission from the people they ostensibly aren’t even protesting against. As Scott said, almost no one thinks Chauvin’s actions are defensible, so what exactly are they protesting against? They’re preaching to the choir and if they don’t get the submission of people that aren’t guilty, they won’t calm down or disperse and may even start or unintentionally provide cover for others to start chucking bricks, lighting cop cars on fire, or shooting a 77 year old black retired police chief. I don’t see many David Dorn signs among these protestors do you? I guess his black life didn’t matter to the them. I don’t get how you are ok with this Bill. Especially when you damn well know that the cold hard facts don’t bear out their argument that black people are being hunted by cops.
edit: The bottom line is I’m not willing to cede ground on reality, even though acquiescing would calm people down. This is what they do in a nut shell. They push you till you move a tiny bit then when you object they stop, but you’ve moved. Over thousands of iterations, tiny jabs of getting you to admit things that aren’t real, all of a sudden you find yourself miles from where you started. No more.
Could not agree more. If you have a chance please read my separate reply.
“The officers who are taking a knee are effectively taking responsibility for something they wouldn’t do in the first place.”
I disagree. They’re saying, “We oppose this, too, and we want you to know and, more importantly, accept that. We’re on the same side here.”
For the first time yesterday, I turned off the episode before it was finished. I do not and never will support what that football player claims taking the knee is…the fact of the matter is that statistics show that more whites are killed by police than are blacks. The fact of the matter is that most people who find themselves in that situation have gotten themselves there through their own choices, including behavior. Better the blacks should concern themselves, as well, with black on black killing…and perhaps they should take a look at black on white killing…I have tired of decades of this subject…it is not a one-way street…this is a deeper problem than “blacks killed by police”….it has more to do with uncivil people in this society of all colors…I have tired of every time that there is a black/white confrontation that there is a civil rights violation….perhaps it is a confrontation between two people who just happen to be different skin colors…I would like to see the subject of racism addressed in that it is not one-directional.
Hilling the country has to be mutual
Not one side kneeling for the other
But before even thinking about it – all riots has to stop
Fully stopped
People are in danger, white people that is
And you have police force kneeling instead of defending them?
WTF?!?
If I may interject here: “People are in danger, white people that is”
The people rioting are mostly black, from what I can tell. They are all taking ridiculous risks doing this kind of violent nonsense. They are also likely throwing these tantrums in areas in which they live. This very often means that they are damaging neighborhoods that are predominantly black.
I truly believe that the most endangered people are still black people.
Aside from that I agree that the police should not be engaging I this kneeling political statement making.
It’s great to see both sides of any story or situation, but Bill went way too far to the dark side. No one doesn’t deplore this murder by cop, but the “protest” have nothing to do with that anymore. It is criminals and anarchists attempting to burn down America hiding behind Floyd’s tragic death. The media and Democrats have turned this event into an anti-Trump circus fueling the victim status of Blacks and encouraging the participation and support of a large number of anti-America factions. Bill, you’re wrong to shelve the outrage at the loss of law and order and applaud the chaos of America-hating mobs because of a few emotional moments of police captains kneeling along with manipulative “victims”. Kneeling before the mob signals the total surrender of civilization to mob rule.
Has anyone looked at the other side of the story? Has anyone looked at the sequence of the events that ended in George Floyd’s death? It appears Bill and Scot have not even attempted that and refuse to do so. They have based their conclusions on a single, small snippet of carefully selected without any of the surrounding context.
https://youtu.be/8bJOEFlFDo8
Kneeling was a HUGE mistake. Police control the population through perceived power. If the People thought for a moment that they couldn’t control them out of sheer numbers, then the criminals will roll right over them, likely murdering them all. The stats on Police killings are very clear, and the Black community is involved in 50% of the crime, representing 13% (6% are males) of the population, and more Whites are killed by Police by quite some bit. It’s amazing that they are aborting Black babies in the hundreds of thousands each year, but the number of Blacks killed by Police is so low – and THAT number is what they key into. I have lived in Black communities – THEY KNOW they are breaking the law, but believe they are victims of the system and Whites, and DESERVE free money and things, and can break the law with abandon – calling any perceived injustice “Racism”. Is there Police abuse? absolutely, it’s why they are charging Police with murder if they actually MURDER someone. But, the Police unions are partially at fault for not removing members who have many, many violations – they should be in jail, not a Police officer. But they are ALSO abusing Whites – they are equal opportunity abusers. And given that Black Police officers make up a huge part of these departments in these Democrat run cities – the argument gets even worse.
Perhaps “taking the knee” cooled the situation for a moment. But think what that symbolized. Not that the sheriff/police chief agreed that the police were wrong in the death of George Floyd, but rather that law enforcement in the country IS systemically racist, and involved in a genocide against black Americans. Remember who started this “bend the knee” phenomena, Colin Kaepernick. His basic premiss WAS that the police were engaging in systemic violence and murder against blacks. That’s just factually inacurate by any standard. So doing a symbolic “kumbya” with the protesters might seem right at the moment, but is wrong in the long run in my opinion. Many more unarmed whites were killed last year by police than blacks, and far more police (89, I believe) died in the line of duty. The proof of the pudding wil be if the cities where the law officer “took the knee” stay calm and safe in the days to come, the protests stop, and our country has a chance to come back to something approaching “normal”. See my post on the subject at: https://captain-al-speaking.com/2020/06/04/first-amendment-rights/
Take a knee…
Thinks about that.. Thinks HARD.
Thinks as a christian…. I take a knee for God. and God alone.
I have sympathy for George Floyd & his family.
I have more anger for the officers that stood by and allowed it to happen.
With all that said! I am not responsible for what was done, and I will not allow myself to feel one single ounce of guilt for what has happened.
Protest! Yes!! Absolutely!!! Protest….. peacefully!
(Yes I understand that the protests were hijacked)
and likewise the protesters need to step up and stop the rioters. The Police need to stop the violence.
(And for gods sake find out who is dropping off the pallets of bricks and water and prosecute them for incitement).
To bring it back to “take a knee”.
NO!
Not because I hate. Because I am God’s Child.
(And two things can be true at the same time… I have self respect & I can show respect for those that have been mistreated)
And Bill
You say that you are never wrong because if you understand – then you would change your position
Is it possible for you to be wrong without your understanding it?
That’s all they want? Bill, you’re about to owe me a refund.
Dont man
Don’t go there…
I am about to go there as well…
Pandemic failed. Queue the race wars.
What happened to Mr. Floyd was just wrong. I have family and friends that are LEOs and their outrage is actually pointed in two main directions 1) That the other officers on the scene did nothing to stop the first, 2) those behind the violence that are organizing things so that pallets of bricks just happen to be available along the march route. Their thinking is that an actual peaceful march is easy to deal with and doesn’t require cops in riot gear. It is the presence of those intending harm that forces the police to show force, which then exacerbates an already tense situation. So if the other 3 officers had done the right thing, there are no protests. If the Antifa organizers would stay away the protests would stay peaceful.
I think that thinking among LEO is one of the reasons we see the police and the protesters able to break the tension with each other. Neither of those groups want violence.
This is one of those times to embrace the healing power of AND.
That police officer committed a crime (not just because it resulted in a man’s death) on a citizen.
AND
The legal system will deal with him appropriately
AND
People have the right to protest / march / express their disgust – Peacefully
AND
Antifa and their backers are co-opting the situation with violence to further their aims
AND
Many politicians are looking the other way because they agree with those goals
AND
Others are using the violence as an opportunity to commit more crimes
AND
Those of us viewing all of the events have the right to be disgusted with the rioting and express ourselves fully about that
AND
probably many other things.
And I may Just be the main conspirator of this channel, but I don’t care
What if these where not real policeman, what if those were actors?
Amos, #WWG1WGA
I wish I understood what this hashtag means
WWG1WGA Means, “Where we go 1 we go all”, and it was engraved on JFK’s ship bell.
You must be new since I left.
I anticipate many exchanges between you and I.
All viewpoints are welcome here, even asinine conspiracy theories founded in no evidence whatsoever.
Have a great day. 🙂
Thanks
And welcome back
So now we are all relativists?
They have feelings / we have feelings
WTF?
It takes great men to admit that they are wrong?
Well?
There’s a third group at play here (or maybe Looters B): those that are not rioting but are using the racial lies to loot power and dominance. It’s not the people taking a knee so much (I’m moved by tears of gratitude, as well), it’s the people taking a knee to beg for forgiveness for their “white privilege” before groups of POC. It disgusts and embarrasses me. From what I hear, the POC with any sense of integrity aren’t too comfortable with it either.
People lying about systemic racism within policing and the country, as a whole, through commission and omission are NOT looking for that acknowledgement that you referenced, Bill. It’s Marxism, period. They want to destroy so they can rebuild and control. You’ve been seeing it in the universities for decades. Now you’re seeing it in corporations. Forcing employees to attend seminars and training classes to admit their racism – which they say they’ll never be able to overcome, btw, so why bother – and grovel is becoming a cancer.
What happened to George Floyd is much more (or all, we don’t know yet) about dangerous policing policies and the enabling, ignoring and/or defending of them by those in power, police commissioners, local governance, etc. The color here is blue and THAT’S what needs to be addressed.
There’s a tentacle running from the movement of acknowledgement and true solidarity to the movement of intersectionality and destructive division that must be severed – quickly. If we’re not diligent, the 2nd will devour the 1st.
Feelings are not a report of reality. They are a report of your evaluation of reality. They do not necessarily reflect the facts of the situation no matter how strongly you feel them.
Thank you…the protestors in Minneapolis are not happy…they want justice…they don’t want to wait for the wheels of justice to turn. They were not happy with the level of the charges but, to be honest, they will have a hard time with a murder 2 charge…That situation there is being exploited by the MN AG and we know who he is.
To protest day after day after day seems, to me, to border on a mental illness…too much unbridled emotion….the men involved have been charged…go home…you said your peace….
BULLSHIT!
Then there is the group that hears “PROTEST” and immediately thinks, “FREE STUFF!” These people make me sick!
Is this kinda “no all” thing?
Look, in a 21 minute long video, there are 2 minutes that make sense