What is it you wanted me to reconcile myself to? I was born here almost 60 years ago, I’m not gonna live another 60 years. You always told me it takes time. It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time. My uncle’s time. My brother’s and my sister’s time. My nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want? For your progress.

James Baldwin, 1989

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    2·
    5 days ago

    Stop living in the past.

    Which I have done, and my determination is that rioting and larger-impact violence (like, say Weather Underground) tend to backfire and turn the public against the cause you’re fighting for.

    Stop living in the past. Those people are dead, and so is their worldview and culture. So there’s really no telling what could happen from a violent revolution today.

    Or, we could not arbitrarily write off historical examples and actually study and learn from history.

    If it came down to it, and say, all the MAGAs in the South and in rural areas of blue states “rose again” and tried to take the streets by force, they would soon get a wake up call, because even the vast majority of police wouldn’t join their ranks (as crazy as that may sound to those of us on the left - there are “good” cops out there who believe in the myth that we were taught growing up about what cops should be - to serve and protect the public).

    Lol, if you had opened with, “We don’t need to worry about defending our communities because we can always just rely on the cops to protect us” then I would’ve just laughed in your face.

    • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 days ago

      if you had opened with, “We don’t need to worry about defending our communities because we can always just rely on the cops to protect us” then I would’ve just laughed in your face.

      I would have too. That would be fucking absurd. Can you please top whacking at straw men and actually address my points?

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        3·
        4 days ago

        If it came down to it, and say, all the MAGAs in the South and in rural areas of blue states “rose again” and tried to take the streets by force, they would soon get a wake up call, because even the vast majority of police wouldn’t join their ranks (as crazy as that may sound to those of us on the left - there are “good” cops out there who believe in the myth that we were taught growing up about what cops should be - to serve and protect the public).

        “We don’t need to worry about defending our communities because we can always just rely on the cops to protect us”

        How are these two statements meaningfully different?