#and congrats you have helped destroy any semblance of a unified resistance because you NEEDED to make that joke

[burnitalldowndarling]

And please remember that it wasn’t Black people who were breaking the windows. It was cops. it was white supremacists, deliberately doing it precisely so they could whine about “riots” and “violence,” or just for fun. They knew the cops would attack Black protestors about it, not rioters, and they knew that white moderates wouldn’t care if Black protestors were violently or unjustly arrested and held -- and that a bunch of those same white moderates would fall for the rhetoric, and be terrified due to their own internalized anti-Blackness, and thus support these fucked up laws. And meanwhile the bulk of white leftists also whine about “riots” and “violence” when it’s us, but complain that no one wants to organize with them or do a General Strike when it’s stuff they care about.

You cannot be anti-Black and have a democracy. Period full stop. Leaving one group to be brutalized by the system makes everyone vulnerable to that same system. Really wish some of y’all would figure that out.

All fair points: