(05-31-2020, 07:16 AM)Jeremy Wrote: This one feels different. More organic. More unified. More passionate. My only hope is that whatever rises from the ashes is something a little closer to what we can and should be as a species. It may take a total collapse. It may take countless lives. But in the end, maybe those that have been born the last few decades came here for this exact reason. To right the wrongs of so many over the centuries. To be that collective catalyst and push for not only a positive harvest but to ease the collective suffering of the earth as a whole. Change is painful and I expect much pain in coming days
I have some very serious doubts about this actually doing anything to end racial divides. In fact I think it will do the exact opposite.
Govt agents will of course tip toe a lot more, but I think a lot of people are going to be extremely irked at the Black Lives Matter movement.
This makes all the white supremacists right now a lot more firm in their attitudes in discriminating against blacks.
The BLM movement isn't directly responsible, but considering time and time again they start protesting and then it leads to people taking advantage of the situation and looting/destruction of businesses....day after day...after daaay in a time of economic crisis is really going to piss a lot of people off in a very personal way. They are knowingly opening the door to an even deeper global economic crisis long after the point has been made. This may lead to much more discrimination.
Who's going to be working in that mall in L.A. and those others strips of businesses in the area that were all torched? Oakland had a bank and Best Buy broken in to among other businesses and don't be surprised if they just ditch town because why would anyone want to set up shop it Raiderville ever again. Who can white supremacists employ the finger at? Who is going to feel compelled to hire a minority that might take it out on the boss and make it a national issue?
I was informed it was the same in the area where the Rodney King riots, parts of D.C. and Baltimore. Hey riot and burn everything down? Ok, adios. Don't like whites? Ok, they all left a place like East Saint Louis and if you go to a place like Alton, or Collinsville the neighboring towns in south Illinois they absolutely do not trust or want anything to do with anyone from East Saint and are divided upon ethnic lines. Watch parts of Oakland become a slum.
Does this make any mildly racist business owner want to suddenly hire a black person a lot more? I really think the opposite. It'll force govt agents to tip toe a lot more but I can picture the KKK really getting off on this. "This is why you don't let blacks in your neighborhood look what they'll do." is what a lot of people are telling each other right now.
Thinking of the thousands of people who have temporarily lost their jobs because Target decided to close many of their stores...and who do they think is responsible? It wasn't some racists in Missouri thousands of miles away torching their property.
I am not a racist but the leadership of these groups needs to STOP what they are doing. What are they winning?
How about the mass coronavirus clusters that are going to emerge from this? Do those lives matter?
I try not to get frustrated but this is senseless. I think this is going to backfire. They're not winning anything great.