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In reply to the discussion: Oh, There is something wrong all right [View all]MuseRider
(34,109 posts)in these times when it is perfectly OK to hold protesters in "free speech zones", when enormous marches are reported as 100's of people, when peaceful protesters get routed out of their area and shot at with all manner of weapons, when a million signatures on a petition can be counted as only 1 opinion.
Society has become rough and ignorant and far too trusting of news sources who report just what they want to hear.
What MLK did in his time was really something courageous and was met with brute force many times and the news reflected it and society reacted. Recently protests that are peaceful are met with brute force and that situation in this country is met with a deafening "meh".
I will not and can not tell a group I do not belong to what or how to be heard. I do agree that there was some aggression that is not acceptable for anyone to do. Still, I am not black. I am not gay. I am not from another country. I am female and deal with that, but for the most part I have privilege dripping from me whenever I wake up and put my feet on the floor.
BLM will do what that segment of the black population wants done. There are others doing other things. If POC want this to be different they will eventually be able to control it. Far be it for this old white lady to interfere in what they feel needs to happen. I don't have to like it. They did not ask me and they should not ask me.