The protests aren't justified because what they're protesting is being overblown by the media; the media pushing this narrative are doing so at the behest of the Democratic party who don't want to lose control of the black vote.
I think they are very much justified, since i am of the opinion that systemic racism is a thing - if you don't believe the latter to be a thing, of course our opinion will differ, i guess.
Marxists believe in socialism and overthrowing capitalism, which is bad (I doubt either of us will change each other's mind on this particular subject, so let's just save time and agree to disagree now).
Adressed this in the message i sent you, but talk to me about it if you should ever feel about it.
Allow me to clarify: BLM are Marxists who also want to destroy the nuclear family.
Adressed this one also (for readers of this post: "
It’s an exaggeration to say that the BLM organization wants to abolish, dismantle, or end the nuclear family, but they do aim to move society (and likely public policy) away from a full embrace of the nuclear family as the preferred familial structure in black society.
Here is what they actually said on their website (which, notably,
has since been removed and the page no longer exists)": "We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.")
I expect this thread to get locked pretty soon.
Understandably, but i don't think the discussions are as heated yet.
I merely used that as an example of how the media blows things out of proportion in order to push a narrative for the purpose of maintaining control.
A simple way to determine if it's as "massive" a "problem" as you and the media claims, ask yourself this: how many interactions do black people have with the police per year and of those interactions how many times are black people unjustifiably killed? When you come up with the actual percentage I'm sure it'd be tough to argue that it's as "massive" a "problem" as you previously thought.
What's sad is that the number of black people killed by cops was actually trending downwards before the media started pushing this narrative.
Systemic racism isn't limited to the police, but even the racism amongst the police is in my eyes still a huge problem and numbers-wise more than big enough of a problem to deserve lots of attention, sherbro.
EDIT: and racism isn't limited to killing people
