Judge the System not the Protesters
So I've been feeling numb and paralyzed, been spending a lot of time in my head b/c I'm not sure what will happen if I let the real feelings be felt. I've got a lot of shock and awe and disbelief, fear and hope, gratitude and guilt swirling around, competing for space. But since w hite silence is consent , I'm going to put some ideas here despite my worries that I'm going to get something wrong, that my analysis isn't perfect, fears that I'll offend my black and POC siblings. Here is what I want to say to my white peers -- If you are going to criticize or judge the violence I say this: violence breeds violence. So if you're going to judge the small minority of protesters that have employed violent tactics in their rebellion, I fully expect to hear you also judge the intertwined system of racial capitalism which is inherently a violent system. It depends on the use of violence to exploit workers' labor and quell their attempts to o...