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In reply to the discussion: Opinion: Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they're white spectacle" [View all]herding cats
(19,558 posts)10. The last paragraph is the clincher of the article.
I am not suggesting retreat. Instead, I am proposing that we take the cause of Black Lives Matter into those places where tear gas and rubber bullets and federal agents cannot find us, and where there is less risk of spectacle distracting from our true aims. In boardrooms, in schools, in city councils, in the halls of justice, in the smoky backrooms of a duplicitous government that is where we will finally dismantle the gears of the brutal, racist machine that has been terrorizing black Americans and hollowing out the moral character of this nation since its inception.
Which I have been seeing happening, but I definitely agree these are the venues where true change is made. At least the systemic type which actually takes root and lasts.
Great opinion piece.
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Opinion: Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they're white spectacle" [View all]
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
OP
Just read a thread about an injured medic in PDX - he says the protest on the ground is still BLM:
chia
Jul 2020
#38
You make a good point. But if you read my post again, it was explain with the expectation
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#51
I read your and agree with your point. My post wasn't intended to counter you
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
#52
Black people are not going to get far against the system without White allies.
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#9
Bravo herdingcats!! This is what civil rights icons would say to do...and did!
Thekaspervote
Jul 2020
#14
There has been nothing of the kind... A BLM protest was met with bullets and
Demsrule86
Jul 2020
#25
The entire country has fallen into the hands of a fascist cabal directed by a foreign enemy...
Hekate
Jul 2020
#16
Portland's Wall of Moms turned over leadership of their group to Black and Indigenous women
flibbitygiblets
Jul 2020
#20
About naked yoga woman, I couldn't help think: that's such an art major thing to do.
betsuni
Jul 2020
#23
Yet it seems that only white people threaten to stop "fighting the power" when black people aren't
StarfishSaver
Jul 2020
#41
I, native Portlander, am watching the live feed into the wee hours every night.
Grasswire2
Jul 2020
#48