I’m hoping the summer of love opened some eyes. I can remember asking people who believed it was some “reckoning on race” to explain how one incident in Minnesota is some reckoning that causes worldwide riots. Of course they couldn’t answer
The thing is, I don't think it did on a conscious level. It wasn't big enough to make people openly know and acknowledge the change.
But it was probably the first time that a lot of America was forced to actually see with their own eyes the race problem. Its one thing to hear about, see little one off events, or the like. Its another to have wall to wall, daily coverage of some straight ghetto insanity.
People who live in a town with like 3 black people total weren't going to be fully bought in on a fucking golden coffin funeral, no matter how much you told them it was police brutality. They won't see looting, fires, and straight monkey behavior and completely think "no this is justified because X."
Outwardly they will say otherwise, because it was social suicide to do anything but and everyone is afraid that they are the only one thinking it in the room. But their subconscious is a lot harder to trick.
I’m hoping the summer of love opened some eyes. I can remember asking people who believed it was some “reckoning on race” to explain how one incident in Minnesota is some reckoning that causes worldwide riots. Of course they couldn’t answer
The thing is, I don't think it did on a conscious level. It wasn't big enough to make people openly know and acknowledge the change.
But it was probably the first time that a lot of America was forced to actually see with their own eyes the race problem. Its one thing to hear about, see little one off events, or the like. Its another to have wall to wall, daily coverage of some straight ghetto insanity.
People who live in a town with like 3 black people total weren't going to be fully bought in on a fucking golden coffin funeral, no matter how much you told them it was police brutality. They won't see looting, fires, and straight monkey behavior and completely think "no this is justified because X."
Outwardly they will say otherwise, because it was social suicide to do anything but and everyone is afraid that they are the only one thinking it in the room. But their subconscious is a lot harder to trick.
That is true. If they covered the Floyd riots like they did Jan 6 I’m sure it would be opened some eyes