I got into a big debate in the group chat about the looting going on. Dude said he agrees with the protests but the looting is a crime and should be punished. I said I agree, but what do you expect when we have over 20 million people unemployed sitting at home waiting for a $1200 check that a lot of people never received.
"The question I’m trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word “looter”. On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you’re accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting." - James Baldwin.
No-Phly-Zone on May 31st, 2020 at 13:45 UTC »
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Someone compiled a majority of the circulating blatant acts of police abusing civilians over the last 48 hours
A_sexy_black_man on May 31st, 2020 at 14:37 UTC »
I got into a big debate in the group chat about the looting going on. Dude said he agrees with the protests but the looting is a crime and should be punished. I said I agree, but what do you expect when we have over 20 million people unemployed sitting at home waiting for a $1200 check that a lot of people never received.
His response? “That was never proven”
ChaZZZZahC on May 31st, 2020 at 14:48 UTC »
"The question I’m trying to raise is a very serious question. The mass media-television and all the major news agencies-endlessly use that word “looter”. On television you always see black hands reaching in, you know. And so the American public concludes that these savages are trying to steal everything from us, And no one has seriously tried to get where the trouble is. After all, you’re accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting." - James Baldwin.
https://mobile.twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1266791831846576128