Some of yall are just absolute dolts. Like..she’s not encouraging ppl to loot or w/e. She’s just explaining why.
40 million people unemployed and we get a measly 1k while corporations are getting like billions. You remember that trillion dollars they just injected into the stock market that disappeared in a flash? Why couldn’t that have been used to properly shelter houseless people? Why couldn’t that be used to feed people? Why is there still NO RENT FREEZE?
People would be restless in quarantine regardless but we have to worry about all this added shit as well - while we are still being murdered by the police at the same rate as if we were not in quarantine. How are we protesting so many police murders when most people are stuck at home? What’s the maffs on that?
So of course people are taking to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade and the countless others murdered by the police. But its only natural that in a police state everything is affected by the police. As areas get gentrified, there is an increase in policing to either imprison or murder the people who are being displaced. Food Not Bombs is arrested for feeding houseless people in miami. Speaking of, where exactly are houseless people supposed to go during curfew when police violence is unmitigated? Everything links back to the police in a police state. This is why we say Abolish The Pigs
As for looting. stop pearl clutching over replaceable, insured things. Lives cannot be replaced nor brought back. If you care more about stores than lives fuck you.
So when Target refused to let the people of Minneapolis buy supplies to neutralize pepper spray, Target was no longer a part of the community. So Minneapoians looted it and burned it. They don’t need a mega corporation in their community if it doesn’t do the will of the community. And what did they do with that loot? They dispersed it to people who needed it. Food for those who needs it, water for the protestors, first aid to those injured.
And she’s 100% that the banks own small businesses. Which is different than banks owning houses or whatever bullshit yall are saying.This idealization of small businesses as pillars of the community is bad. Remember the LA Riots? small business owner killed a 15 year old Latasha Harlins? Small businesses are a part of gentrification. Protestors are stopping the looting and vanadlism of businesses that are good for their communities. You have got to trust that the protestors know their communities better than you do.
