May 30, 2020
Added 2020-05-31 01:04:36 +0000 UTCI've spent the day in bed mindlessly watching YouTube videos. I am not downtown protesting. I want to be, but I'm too scared of the virus. "Fear." I don't really know it. I have access to white privilege, to male privilege. I can walk down the fucking street without fear of men coming after me with rifles. Without fear of the police stopping me for no reason, murdering me, and facing no repercussions. Fear of the virus? It's killing more black people than white people. Black people, fighting for their lives while I lie here in bed paralyzed. My friend said, law enforcement wasn't created to serve people, it was created to control people. You can't reform a broken system. Let it all fucking burn.
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I agree. Texted my daughter in Denver Saturday and she told me she was protesting. Ugh. I do support her taking a stand but as her real birth daddy, that scares the shit out of me. I would be on the streets too but I'm old and white. And quite privileged as retired with retirement income so seeing all this from afar is surreal. However, I disagree, Natty, about letting the system, law enforcement, burn. If it is gone, something even worse will take its place. Stasi? And I know personally too many cops who really really are good guys (and gals and in between). They see themselves as being at our service for a common good. A socialist good. How do we identify the bad ones and eliminate them from the system and raise up the mediocre ones to a higher place?
Rick Woodman
2020-05-31 13:55:41 +0000 UTCDracarys
Jimmy Manning
2020-05-31 01:31:54 +0000 UTC
