I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed.
So what?
My grandmother lived through both world war should we resent the "Germans" who invaded our country unprovoqued twice?
That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
And that show that this lady have no idea of what she's talking about. Thread lightly when you talk about violence. Thread very lightly, because you'll either find your "peoples" putting other peoples into mass graves, or be put into those, and faster than you think. It happend countless times and will happen again.
Why not just be out with it and say "we all have our burden to bear"
Go ahead, trivialize the suffering of African Americans, which btw isn't a past event, it is an ongoing saga. There are no peaceful alternatives especially when white people pretend like the issue doesn't exist or that they suffer in some way too.
There is no justice for black people in this country. They have significantly longer prison sentences, they are convicted more often, the police have a disturbing tendency to just shoot them while they are unarmed.
Don't act like you have any idea what it is to be black in America.
Your dismissal of the problem is nothing less than racist. It is erasure.
This is what happens when you crush people for too long, they fight back however they can. All these "meaningful dialogues" that are supposedly going to happen, won't have an effect because the cops have no oversight on this whatsoever, and there are no mandatory records of the number of civilians murdered by police officers.
Nothing is going to change from this, and the WASP community will move on, content that justice was served and people held hands and talked. Things will continue to be oppressive, they will remain the same.
Brown's murderer has gotten sizable donations from the KKK and works with them side by side. I hope he lives the rest of his life in fear, having to change his identity regularly to avoid being killed by angry mobs who want whatever justice they can get. But that would be fair, and life isn't fair.