Comment by Thinkx220
5 years ago
Unfortunately, both you, the media, and the looters keep forgetting the events are, as you said, history.
5 years ago
Unfortunately, both you, the media, and the looters keep forgetting the events are, as you said, history.
> Unfortunately, both you, the media, and the looters keep forgetting the events are, as you said, history.
But history can be important. Literally everything that's known and has been done is now history, including recently committed crimes.
The history that we're talking about still has clearly identifiable painful consequences in present-day communities, so it's not something that can just be filed away and ignored as no longer relevant.
What does "history" mean? The suffering of innocent bystanders in past riots is history. In a year the innocent bystanders of these riots will be "only history".
Many of the immigrants who have created new businesses in the US have experienced terrible histories themselves, but they have been able to put these behind them, because their antagonists are not in the US.
I don't think historic injustices should be simply ignored, but the problem is even more severe when the systemic abuses your community is experiencing is not only in the past, not only occurring in the moment, but there is realistic prospect that conditions will to improve.
Private companies militarizing police forces never face liability, and sworn, armed officers belong to unions, and neither of those seems on a course to changing.
It is a completely untenable situation for American citizens to be extra-judiciously killed by government employees. Rioting doesn't help, peaceful protests don't help, you can't even respectfully kneel during the national anthem without being treated as though you're rejecting everything about the country. Petitions? Hunger strikes? Self-immolation?
If it were purely history, we wouldn’t be seeing the violence, injustice, and disparity we see today. The problem is that isn’t “history”, it’s ongoing.
It's history and it's the present. You sound like the people who claim racism must be over since Obama was elected.
What about this event indicates racism was involved? Because the cop is not behind bars? That is most likely due to union rules and procedures which have to be followed.
Until it happens again, and again, and again, and again....