Incredible scene at Colorado’s Capitol right now. Thousands of protesters are lying face down with their hands behind their backs chanting “I can’t breathe.” They’re doing this for 9 mins. #copolitics#denverprotest#GeorgeFloyd
This isn’t black vs. white. Anger and outrage is multiracial. It isn’t simply police vs. the people. In some areas they march together. This is whether we as a society tolerate the divisions and injustices rooted in history and stoked by those benefiting from their existence.
Rapper Killer Mike made an emotional plead with Atlanta demonstrators to “not burn your own house down for anger with an enemy”: “We don’t want to see targets burning. We want to see the system that sets up for systemic racism burned to the ground” https://t.co/65NDumzX6j