They look Amish to me? Maybe they’re Quakers or something like that.The Amish don’t all wear the hats FWIW.
Warren has the most ideas and most thoroughly planned policies/most detailed of any politician in the US. Pick your battles better
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Nice font on the “Justice for George Floyd” poster, but I would have preferred it if that poser wouldn’t have used the newfangled “s” and would have gone with the tall-s “Juftice for George Floyd”.
They look more like Mennonites.
That’s Amish for poser.
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Someone should design a riff on the Gadsden flag with the slogan “Don’t kneel on me”. Replace the snake with a different symbol, pick a different color.
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Meh, those guys were there to cosplay and jerk each other off with stories of how heroic they were. They were never going to be in the thick of it, and if the thick came to them they were bugging out.
Mennonites
… they have ponies too
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Wouldn’t it be helpful for the leaders in Minnesota to reveal who these outsiders are that are causing all the trouble? Everybody is singing the same tune now, but names and backgrounds of people they’ve apprehended would really go a long way towards reinforcing their message IMO.
Had a friend go to Omaha yesterday. told me it was entirely peaceful until a group of white people showed up and started making trouble. He got out of there quick, so no info on who they were, but seems consistent.
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A power structure built on a system of white supremacy has been trying to smear protesters demanding justice by calling them outside agitators since before MLK.
Funny that they aren’t calling all the cops that don’t live in minneapolis outside agitators…
I don’t doubt that there are some mischievous people doing dirt. But 99% of protestors are peaceful and demanding change.
And come on, they’re claiming 100% of arrests in St. PAUL are from out of state…sure, and Donald Trump has never told a lie…
Maybe they were only arresting white people.
Like I said, 3pers are a known white supremacist group.
There are basically two sides to BLM. The BLM Network was founded by the creators of the @hashtag: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, who are also radical feminists and LGBQT activists, in 2013 in reaction to the T.Martin killing. The BLM Network consists of chartered but otherwise autonomous chapters. They are anti-political action and anti-capitalists, and also as much interested in internally “fixing” black empowerment movements as externally. They have always had official website. From What We Believe…
We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
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.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
The other side of BLM is what is often called the NGO-Complex, which is basically a manger filled with various, often conflicting, reformist y/o semi-grifter types, typically more or less closely aligned with the donkeys. These folks jumped on the BLM bandwagon after Ferguson MO happened. The most famous folk of this side of BLM is DeRay Mckesson.
The folks in the video you posted simply identify themselves as ‘redneck’. An origin of the term ‘redneck’ was describing union coal miners from WV, KY, PA, who wore red bandanna as a sign of solidarity. Some are trying to ‘reclaim’ the term, including anti-capitalist, anti-racist and anti-fascist gun-nut group Redneck Revolt. FYI: RR is (or at least were ~2yrs ago) active in San Diego… and in my experiences, are good folk.
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More like Mennorities amirite
What she is certain of is how aggressive Officer Derek Chauvin became when the club hosted events that drew a mainly black clientele, responding to fights by taking out his mace and spraying the crowd, a tactic she told him was unjustified “overkill.”
“He would mace everyone instead of apprehending the people who were fighting,” said Maya Santamaria, former owner of El Nuevo Rodeo club on East Lake Street in Minneapolis. “He would call backup. The next thing you would know, there would five or six squad cars.”
Also, his wife is an immigrant who was Mrs. Minnesota.
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https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1266606394930847745?s=20
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1266608567487954945?s=20
So how do I talk to my boomer LGBT friends who were alive when Stonewall/Watts/etc happened but are decrying the rioting now? They are strong democrats, but they SAW the aftermath of the rioting in the 60s: the election of Richard Nixon. They are deathly afraid right now that this will cause so much backlash that Trump will cruise to re-election.
And you know…they aren’t wrong. It did happen in the 60s. How do I convince them things are different? ARE things different? will this bring conservative non-voters out of the woodwork?
This is all part of the “burn it all down” part of me vs. the “go home” part of me, again.