Unfortunately, No Surprise
May. 30th, 2020 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanA 19-year-old man has been shot and killed in Detroit after an unknown gunman opened fire on protesters after days of unrest in the city.
The teen was killed after an unknown person in a Dodge Durango approached a group of protesters and police in Detroit's Greektown entertainment district on Friday and opened fire, according to reports.
Look, I know it's resorting to stereotypical thinking, but I can't help assigning a skin colour to the victim & the shooter. And no, they're not the same colour. To be honest, the victim could well be white, or Latin American, or Asian... being angry about police murdering unarmed people is not an exclusively black thing & deserves to be supported & amplified by anyone with a functioning brain. But... I would bet a significant amount of money on the shooter being white... because, as pointed out in the Betoota Advocate today, the white people who think these riots are an over-reaction, are the same ones who took AR-15 rifles to a protest about not being able to get a haircut when they wanted to...
Dear USA - you've just lost 100,000 people to a disease which other similarly developed countries have managed to control by listening to scientists & co-operating with each other, resulting in much lower death rates than yours. The man who allowed all your fellow citizens to die, through callous neglect & spectacular pig-headedness is getting away with it... & you're shooting unarmed protesters instead??!!??
Like most disasters or crime scenes, the rest of the world is standing by, just looking on. We can't do anything to stop it... we know it's going to be horrible... yet we can't look away
The teen was killed after an unknown person in a Dodge Durango approached a group of protesters and police in Detroit's Greektown entertainment district on Friday and opened fire, according to reports.
Look, I know it's resorting to stereotypical thinking, but I can't help assigning a skin colour to the victim & the shooter. And no, they're not the same colour. To be honest, the victim could well be white, or Latin American, or Asian... being angry about police murdering unarmed people is not an exclusively black thing & deserves to be supported & amplified by anyone with a functioning brain. But... I would bet a significant amount of money on the shooter being white... because, as pointed out in the Betoota Advocate today, the white people who think these riots are an over-reaction, are the same ones who took AR-15 rifles to a protest about not being able to get a haircut when they wanted to...
Dear USA - you've just lost 100,000 people to a disease which other similarly developed countries have managed to control by listening to scientists & co-operating with each other, resulting in much lower death rates than yours. The man who allowed all your fellow citizens to die, through callous neglect & spectacular pig-headedness is getting away with it... & you're shooting unarmed protesters instead??!!??
Like most disasters or crime scenes, the rest of the world is standing by, just looking on. We can't do anything to stop it... we know it's going to be horrible... yet we can't look away
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Date: 2020-05-30 01:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-05-30 10:26 pm (UTC)I fully support the protests, but breaking into shoe stores & burning random cars? In a town that's hundreds of miles away, in a different state?? That's not righteous anger, that's opportunism at its worst