@polotek Maybe so. The bigger question is have they learned and how many? I live in Atlanta, which makes me an outlier, blue bubble in a red state, and a white progressive in a a city run by POC. The summer of BLM moved me quite a bit closer to the ACAB line after having my son tear-gassed and arrested for walking across a street with his hands in the air. I saw the governor rolling MRAPS and the National Guard down my streets in a show of force.
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There's something I've been thinking about for a long time.@polotek I'm sure there are some, maybe even many white folks who are that naive. But many of us realize that the political structures in the electoral college and makeup of the house and senate that were designed to protect the political power of slaveholding states have been subverted to keep that structural racism in place all over federal and state regulations and laws. I don't think ANYONE thought BLM protests were going to change the DNA of American policing.
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Some important reminders of history and the reality of our society’s power structures in this thread from @seachanger:@inthehands @donaldball I couldn't have been more proud of John Lewis as my congressman. He was a loud and persuasive voice against war - from his application as a conscientious objector to Vietnam in 1961 (it took 3 years for him to become the first black CO in the state of Alabama) through the end of his life. But it was his base in Atlanta that made that activism possible.
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Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing.@inthehands That entire thread of conversation is 100% on target. I'm not a journalist, I'm an engineer. But I did go through journalistic ethics training when I was at CNN and helped launch CNN.com. The right long since abandoned mainstream media because they thought it was biased against them. It's not becoming very clear that it's ALSO biased against ANYTHING that doesn't maximize the drama and thus eyeballs and ad revenue of politics.