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Re: Riots in America. -
May 31st 2020, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Fanatic
I dont approve of the riots AT ALL. Extremists don't fix the problem they make it worse for others. Praying for everyone's safety in all this and for the ones making trouble to get arrested and locked up. There's a better way than this.
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What you need to understand and this goes to the quotes of Martin Luther King Jr. He was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement and endorsed peaceful protest to recognize the rights of African American. But his efforts proved futile when he was killed by an extremist who hated what he was doing.
Around the same time, we have the Stonewall Uprising by the LGBT+ community and the Kent State peace rally by those who opposed brutality in the Vietnam war. Both of these started off peacefully, and ended in what we now know as:
Stonewall Riots
Kent State Shooting, the fiftieth anniversary of which was just a few weeks ago.
Even today, the LGBT+ community, particularly Black LGBT and Latinx, struggle to be heard because they are POC and LGBT+. But enough efforts have been made where their rights (for the most part) are offered—again, a white privlege—and they don't have to worry about creating another Stonewall Uprising.
However, the African American community has been struggling since long before Martin Luther King to be heard. To be focused on how these riots committed by so-called extremists is worse than the fact they've been oppressed and victims of police brutality for most of ten years (and beyond) is alarming.
Prayers won't do anything. Check your privileges, be mindful of your words, and become proactive.
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