I see it first hand . My wife is black and she’s sick and needs medicine but the drug store ic closed because it was ransacked. Ransacking a drug store is not helping anybody . The protests start off peaceful but A lot of people are coming in to destroy stuff and be a part of something so they can go back where they came from with a cool story about being in the riots.
Even though I’m not in the U.S., I don’t think about the rebuilding the cities! That will all be taken care of and can be fixed. I’m thinking about the police brutality. Like, I want that to change! That’s what is heartbreaking!
That is very unfortunate but this is what happens when there is police brutality! Your wife is having trouble accessing medicine because police are acting disgustingly towards the people they are supposed to serve!
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It’s messed up on both sides, I’m friends with a few cops and they’re just trying to survive this .
Philly police dropped a bomb on their citizens 35 years ago and still haven't apologized.
I remember when it happened it was Wilson Good a black mayor that did it . One of my 1st concerts I went to was in support of Move. It was RATM before they were big and there was only about 25 people there .
I grew up in the suburbs in a pretty multi-cultural, liberal town but all the racist kids in school ended up becoming cops. As abhorrent and infuriating all of this is, for anybody actually paying attention, it’s not shocking. I don’t know what it will take to change but having a certain President* in charge is only making it worse. All the racists feel more comfortable coming out of the shadows and think there won’t be consequences for their actions, until their faces are seen and then they flea like cockroaches and say “I’m not a racist!”
When I've first heard about what happened, in the bright daylight and with someone even filming it, I couldn't believe things like that still happen in the US. This needs to stop and I hope that this will lead to some change.
No doubt, for sure. It's also a children's show featuring puppet monsters trying to learn the alphabet. I'm just saying that putting out even the most milquetoast of statements on social channels wouldn't exactly be a bold step for any business at this point.
As usual, @Indymisanthrope with one of the most thoughtful coments in the midst of a discussion. I'm 100% with you. If they care about revolutionary art, they should care about revolutionary actions themselves.
Oh it’s all good we just went to another drug store, they’re not all burned down. I was just saying ransacking a drug store is really not helping anyone, or really making any kind of statement other than just being violent for violence sake.
She’s standing up and speaking out about something she believes in, as we all should.
I'm of two minds about this. It depends on who ransacked it and why, IMO. If it was by outside agitators trying to provoke violence? Bad. If it was done because we're desensitized to protests until they become disruptive to the comfort zones of the privileged? More nuanced. Innocent people will suffer for it, and that's unfortunate, but also the very point. Innocent people suffer unjustly in our current conditions all the time -- why should you or I or any of us have the security of knowing that we won't be subjected to it?
