as a country, we missed another 'golden opportunity' to effectively address 'police brutality' & 'racism' by 'allowing' insider (as well as outsider) agitators to influence the direction of the george floyd protests---&, here's why...
the mass protests seemingly sprang up overnight which tells me that they were organized from the very beginning---&, far too many of those wishing to have their voices heard peacefully were galvanized into negative actions (violence/destruction/thievery) &, right there we lost the power for a true dialog with the 'powers that be' for true police reform, etc---instead, those truly wishing & hoping for a peaceful outcome can now only negotiate from a weakened platform---simply put, we blew an opportunity to 'force' the 'powers that be' to address our needs & concerns---can you imagine thousands of americans (all across our country) peacefully showing up at our city halls & demanding that we be heard??? our elected officials would have no choice but to hear us out...
well, here it is sunday & all we can do now is 'defend' our peaceful intentions against the senseless mayhem that was caused---&, the true narrative will be lost in that defense...
yes, the vast majority of the protests started off peacefully & then, something snapped & all hell broke lose---&, it was well orchestrated to turn the 'peacefulness' into 'chaos' &, it worked...
it worked so well that the media was going ape-shit in trying to cover all the mayhem &, unfortunately, as soon as things revert back to a normalcy we can live with, all will be forgotten because the media will have moved on to other 'news' until the next time---our media doesn't like to cover 'good news'...
good people, we all need to get together & formulate a plan (s) to combat police brutality & racism because there is no one solution that fits all problems---we need to elect responsible spokes-people/leaders to represent us & hey, the al sharptons are not the answer---we need to sit down with our elected officials & police forces to effectively address our problems/concerns...
& most importantly---
1...we need to quit listening to the media until they report the TRUTH
2...we need to quit being led like sheep
3...we need to stop killing one another
4...we need to work with the police to police our own neighborhoods
5...we need to elect people that will honestly fight for our rights (REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY)
6...we need to all work together as one
i leave you with this...
