I remember during the summer of love someone excused the destruction as anger due to slavery. After asking how teens have any justification using slavery as an excuse I asked him what about the black owned businesses that were destroyed along with the others and I told him he is essentially saying that black ppl are savages who can’t be expected to behave in a civil manner. Anyone with common sense knows that destroying things is wrong regardless of how mad you are.
When I was a tyke, a poor tyke, I had a bag of toys that I collected. These were all my toys, and I carried it from place to place as my "living situation" changed; meaning I couch-surfed most of the time, sleeping on the couch of whichever marginally more stable adult I happened to be with. I treated these things like an old person might treat a jar of sea-shells they collected on an exotic vacation from their youth. You paw at them, look at them, cherish them.
Older, having friends from the public school, eventually I was invited to visit their homes, and I was appalled. They were surround by stuff and things, just stuff and things, as far as the eye could see. Any direction I looked, especially in the kids' rooms, and across the back-yard, was something that trumped my entire collection. New, shiny, amazing stuff. Nerf guns and video games and huge stuffed animals and darts and jarts and just a cornucopia of things.
What really surprised me was playing video games with these kids, my fellows. Whenever they got mad, they would grab the nearest thing and just hurl it, against whatever. Sometimes even the screen, which is an expense my tyke brain couldn't even imagine. Even with their little kid arms, something precious would crack or even burst in a shower of plastic against a wall, against a dresser, against a VCR, against a screen--cracking the screen even--and this amazed and appalled me.
You go back to that other kids' house a month later, and it's all back to square one. Hole in the wall fixed. No shards of plastic. TV replaced. Controllers replaced. Carpets vacuumed. Stuff painted, if need be. The next time the other team scored, or they lost their last Contra life, boop, there goes the TV again, no big deal.
Not even a little surprised that these little collegiate crackers don't understand and don't mind when stuff gets destroyed. In their minds, somebody backstage just replaces it between scenes.
Lol when I said that it was ridiculous to riot and loot over a case that was being investigated and tried I was told by a blonde sorority girl that I was a disgrace to black people. I was also told that no one should ever hire me as an attorney because I advocate following rule of law. I can only imagine how she would have responded to my views on abortion
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been called a white supremacist or an Uncle Tom for saying that rioting and looting will drive out business and then it will be hard to get people to invest in a high crime area.
Now when I’m called a white supremacist I just say my DNA report said I’m 20% white so I guess my white DNA has overpowered everything else
I remember during the summer of love someone excused the destruction as anger due to slavery. After asking how teens have any justification using slavery as an excuse I asked him what about the black owned businesses that were destroyed along with the others and I told him he is essentially saying that black ppl are savages who can’t be expected to behave in a civil manner. Anyone with common sense knows that destroying things is wrong regardless of how mad you are.
When I was a tyke, a poor tyke, I had a bag of toys that I collected. These were all my toys, and I carried it from place to place as my "living situation" changed; meaning I couch-surfed most of the time, sleeping on the couch of whichever marginally more stable adult I happened to be with. I treated these things like an old person might treat a jar of sea-shells they collected on an exotic vacation from their youth. You paw at them, look at them, cherish them.
Older, having friends from the public school, eventually I was invited to visit their homes, and I was appalled. They were surround by stuff and things, just stuff and things, as far as the eye could see. Any direction I looked, especially in the kids' rooms, and across the back-yard, was something that trumped my entire collection. New, shiny, amazing stuff. Nerf guns and video games and huge stuffed animals and darts and jarts and just a cornucopia of things.
What really surprised me was playing video games with these kids, my fellows. Whenever they got mad, they would grab the nearest thing and just hurl it, against whatever. Sometimes even the screen, which is an expense my tyke brain couldn't even imagine. Even with their little kid arms, something precious would crack or even burst in a shower of plastic against a wall, against a dresser, against a VCR, against a screen--cracking the screen even--and this amazed and appalled me.
You go back to that other kids' house a month later, and it's all back to square one. Hole in the wall fixed. No shards of plastic. TV replaced. Controllers replaced. Carpets vacuumed. Stuff painted, if need be. The next time the other team scored, or they lost their last Contra life, boop, there goes the TV again, no big deal.
Not even a little surprised that these little collegiate crackers don't understand and don't mind when stuff gets destroyed. In their minds, somebody backstage just replaces it between scenes.
Lol when I said that it was ridiculous to riot and loot over a case that was being investigated and tried I was told by a blonde sorority girl that I was a disgrace to black people. I was also told that no one should ever hire me as an attorney because I advocate following rule of law. I can only imagine how she would have responded to my views on abortion
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been called a white supremacist or an Uncle Tom for saying that rioting and looting will drive out business and then it will be hard to get people to invest in a high crime area.
Now when I’m called a white supremacist I just say my DNA report said I’m 20% white so I guess my white DNA has overpowered everything else