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4 years to the day after George Floyd was murdered, here's where we are:

* Racist people are just as racist as the day before George Floyd was murdered.

* Black people are still asking for the exact same things.

* "Liberal" and "Centrist" white Americans are *more* racist, and *less* supportive of DEI than they were the day before George Floyd.

* Police budgets have grown *faster* than they did the day before George Floyd.

* Biden has undone any of the gains made during the protests.

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* progressive DAs have been recalled, and NYC has 1000s of more cops than it had before.

* Entire DEI programs have been shut down at major universities.

* The FBI basically rebooted COINTELPRO, labelling and surveilling young black people who participated in the BLM protests as "Black identity extremists."

* There has been no meaningful legislation passed to identify cops like Chauvin before they commit murder, and remove them from service. There's been no meaningful change in accountability

@mekkaokereke What most people want is peace and security and to get on with their lives. If they see riots and stuff on fire, they will vote for more cops and hardline DAs and a general crackdown.

This whole cycle happened in the 1970s and 80s. Anyone remember the Willie Horton ad? The crack wars and resulting extreme sentences for crack? If history really does rhyme, the backlash is just getting started.

mark

@mike805 @mekkaokereke most people are confused about the definition of peace then.

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke For most people the definition of peace is "I can walk down the street without feeling any fear or annoyance."

They would be happy in Singapore or Japan, as long as they don't want to smoke pot or do some other thing that happens to be strongly repressed there.

@mike805 @mekkaokereke when peace and security is rooted in no one making noise and complaining, then they stay happy with really shitty situations, especially if someone else has it worse.

We need to raise up the worst off and have peace for all