LogFAQs > #940264464

I consider the protesters one group, and the rioters and looters another group, and I'm pretty disgusted that people view peaceful protest the same as rioting... like seriously I'm disgusted.

People have the right to protest. Just because you don't agree with the reason they are protesting doesn't mean they don't have the right to do it. I didn't agree with the guys out there a few weeks ago protesting about re-opening the country so they could get a hair cut, but I would not support the government tear gassing them.

Peaceful Protest is a corner stone of democracy and anyone who objects to that is not a real American.

But rioting is violence. Looting is theft, they are crimes and they must be stopped. While I get the anger and frustration, all rioting and looting does is abandon the moral high ground.

As an old black person I know a simple fact, if you give racist an inch, they'll take a mile. We are trying to express to America and the world that law enforcement should not police black communities so harshly, after generations of this it is a hard sell, but what makes it 1000 times harder is when Racist can turn on the news and see a ton of black faces burning down their own communities and then they can say "The police would not treat them like animals if they didn't act like animals"

Now I could argue all day and night on how that's an unfair generalization, and I would be right, but why give them the ammunition at all, why allow that to even be a talking point.

I am very disappointed in those who are attacking (both physically and verbally) the peaceful protest. And I am very disappointed in those who are rioting and looting.

#BeBetter

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Starfire: "They are too numerous to fight. What shall we do?"
Robin: "Fight anyway!"