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What have I missed?
Protests following the killing of George Floyd
- Thread starter Abizzz
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The best movie of all time. Watch all the tweet vdo’s to catch up. Don’t know when it ends yet though.
Been watching this one on and off since you recommended it. It's not for the fainthearted but I applaud the people putting themselves at risk to document it for the world from up close.
I think social media are making them bigger. It took whole organizations like the SCLC, SNCC, COFO to get marches like what was seen at Selma or the Freedom Summer and things like that organized. Social media spawned what is, most likely, one of the biggest civil rights protests in our nation's history in hours.
The Harlem Riot of 1964 lasted about a week, as did the Watts Riot of 1965. In 1967, there was the "Long Hot Summer" where there were riots in something like 150 cities across the country. Most of those lasted about a week as well. The biggest national social unrest since the Civil War though were the individual protests and riots that followed MLK Jr's assassination... each of those lasted around a week also and spread nationwide, but they were spread out over an entire month.
Trump is politically fcuked right now. Having argued for so long for USA to get out of lockdown and back to work, the only way he stops this now is via a national 24 hour curfew enforced by military with shoot to harm orders. Ie go back into lockdown.
And then covid19 2nd wave will mean that lockdown has to stay for another month. Lucky he has so many ventilators and PPE.
That’s what I think.
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Maybe state governers can get things under control?
Yeah, under Trump. Any other leader (left or right) in a democratic country would try to diffuse this situation as quickly as possible, appeal to common humanity and just move heaven and earth to calm this down. The ANTIFA tweet was another attempt at deflection.
I'm wondering where or what the end is because it feels like a tipping point, especially if Trump gets another term. The American equivalent of the storming of Bastille or Versailles? The french revolution...with iPhones and Twitter.
Am switching between that plus twitter, Reddit and cnn on different tabs. Though I’m in London and was caught up in our own unique British Cummings political scandal, Floyd protests has had me emotionally fixated for past 3 days.
One thing has to be said: serious respect to young Americans for taking their Government apparatus to task like this.
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I'm loving Cuomo on CNN looking at random images of protests and in a few seconds he tells us which group each person is part of based on a shirt or a gesture.
He has most certainly monumentally fecked it up at every stage, while managing to never break his -crybaby attention seeking egocentric power trip- caricature of a character.
we are defo going to see another huge surge in covid-19 cases, but be under no illusion - he will continue to bark CHINA.
There is always a tweet.
Keith Ellison gonna lead the prosecution team against the cops. Very good decision.
Not sure it matters that much, Trump might just randomly decide to pardon them at the end of the day.
Not sure it matters that much, Trump might just randomly decide to pardon them at the end of the day.
Any Maga bitches out there counter protesting deserve their asswhooopings. They have had it coming to them for a while.
Looks like I’ll be late to my school’s graduation stuff tomorrow. City I live in just got put on curfew till 7am and I’m supposed to be 20 miles from here at... 7am.
Thanks for very helpful explanation. Is there a movie or book that accurately captures this era as one movement? Need to expand my knowledge on this.
Protest snitching. Comments are hilarious
They see this as a Call of Duty campaign on the lowest setting. They cannot wait to go out & light people up. These ammosexuals seem to be getting sexual arousal from this.
Sarcasm even back then.
I was up there in school in the 90s, next stop was the west coast. Grew up in FL & was there for the past decade. Now I find myself in an equally fecked up state, GA.
Which area if you don't mind me asking? I was schooling in good ole NicEVILle.
FSU. Grew up in St. Petersburg.
One certainly takes a step backwards when one enters Florida, one sprints backwards when one enters the panhandle & moves west.
No problem.
Probably the definitive read on the era would be Taylor Branch’s 3 volume set America in the King Years.
Book 1: Parting the Waters 1954-1963
Book 2: Pillar of Fire 1964-1965
Book 3: At Canaan’s Edge 1965-1968
I just watched about an hour of live streaming from DC until the guy decided to go home after catching a bit of heat from the protestors. It was quite surreal "being there" and watching it.
(Disclaimer: I haven't verified this)
Portland cops are soooo bad. It is actually telling that some of the bluest cities have the worst cops. I also remember reading that atleast 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence.
FSU is a good time, at least. I got drunk for the first time there during my high school freshman spring break.
And when you say, move west, do you mean west as in towards Pensacola? If so, I'm so sorry. I'm right across the bay from where you grew up, sitting here in our city-wide curfew due to the protests (just to make this relevant to the thread). Thanks, Jane Castor you fecking traitor.
I think you're conflating two different types of statistics.
Phoenix, then San Francisco.
How is Castor doing? I knew her a little bit a few years back, she would come into the restaurant I managed years back. Used to watch United matches at MacDinton’s with Marty, Barry, etc.
Yeah, I was referring to the data on a whole and Not just Portland.
Is this photo legit?
Crazy times
Does anyone know how Trump's media mouthpiece Fox News have been covering the murder of Floyd and subsequent rioting across the US?
Checked on Friday Tucker’s show. Started as ‘protestors protesting for the killing of a black people and for long overdue social problems’ and I was what the feck is going on, since when Tucker decided to not be a twat?Then he showed a video of looters, started laughing and turned the story upside down. Essentially, it was all about the protestors looting and destroying their cities.
Coloured people isn't a thing anymore btw.
Also, the racists would say that regardless of what people did. So their opinions are irrelevant unless they're in power. Those opinions matter.
Wouldn't be surprised if he and the MAGA crowd start to blame the protesters for that, in contradiction to their own frantic opposition to basic safety measures.
The Montgomery Bus boycott was a great example of denying capital to the very same regime that oppressed you in the first place (which i've briefly mentioned in here). However the actual boycott was limited to Montgomery primarily, it wasn't a large scale demonstration and even after the bill passed to remove segregation on buses, segregation still existed at the bus stops, plus some of those who participated in the boycott were arrested too. Also it's important to note that it was the MIA group filing a lawsuit which led to the laws changing - there's nothing to suggest that had the protest gone on, without a lawsuit that any change in laws would've occurred.
As far as non-violence goes, in the immediate aftermath of the bill passing in the Supreme Court - Black Americans who sat in the front of buses were attacked, snipers used to shoot through the windows & MLK's house was bombed, plus many other instances.
Sure, the bill passed through non-violence & it was a great first step in Civil Rights, but the Bus Boycott by itself wasn't the large scale societal change that i'm referring to here, it was simply igniting the match, because the Civil Rights movement lasted 10 years after the fact - again, an incredible amount of violence here.
I'd even argue that segregation isn't completely over when you look at Residential Segregation & School segregation.
I'd also argue that a lot of the success of the Bus Boycott was due to a lack of visibility to those who weren't impacted; word of mouth & passing of leaflets to other black people were the main methods used to drive communication & action in the black community - in a majority black town.
If you were white, it didn't impact you & if you lived in a different state, chances are you didn't hear about it, or couldn't participate in it.
It was a smaller scale demonstration that led to a nationwide change of 1 specific law, but the entire aim was an end to all segregation and that was just the first step.
What other examples do you have?
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