This is what my brother has to say about the what about the looters? question, and I think hes right on here, and not just because hes my brother. 1. The truism is true: stop being so concerned about the loss of property or the morality of those who take stuff in a riot, start keeping your concern on police killing your fellow citizens. 2. If the rioters and looters were friends of mine, I’d probably say “come on, don’t burn down your neighborhood” to which they’d probably reply “you don’t understand this rage” and “nothing else gets results or response” and “how can you blame us for this when we live with harassment and now random death day in, day out” and I’d return to the truism above rather than continue to lecture enraged people about protecting private property. But none of the rioters and looters are friends of mine, nor am I (or you, probably) being consulted about how to respond to this murder by people in that community, so sounding off about rioters and looters reveals a lot about the person sounding off, not the actual people there. 3. And I’d also ask you why so many are so concerned about rioting and looting as a response to a genuine catastrophic injustice, but were a lot less concerned about the Bundy weirdoes pointing rifles at federal agents, especially when the former are so clearly on the right side of this event and the latter so clearly on the wrong side, and then I’d hope that that would send you to the mirror for a moment of real reflection on how racism frames our interpretation of these things (it’s okay to have that reflection, we all learn through making mistakes and oversteps, the important thing is to learn) and then, on the basis of that reflection, I’d hope you’d commit inside yourself to being better about this stuff in the future. /FIN
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:05:38 +0000
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