@somebody Said
Why are we so demonized ?
Riot cops are anti American.
What you are doing is wholly counterproductive to your goals...
If you want your voice heard and respected, you need to remove your violence and physical aggression towards others and others’ property. Rioting and looting only takes away from your message and redirects the spotlight instead on your destruction, pissing a lot of people off that would have otherwise listened to you.
Note, that what you are doing is quite different than what the likes of Gandhi and MLK did. Yes, both they and you advocate(d) forms of civil disobedience, and were/are certainly not placid like today’s peaceful marches, but their form of civil disobedience did not involve violence towards their targets, and can be much more effective as such:
Joining their causes at their times required a sacrifice that was very much like joining a battle - you could have been physically hurt, incarcerated, even killed, and anyone willing to do what they did in their civil disobedience knew these risks and partook in them anyways.
In fact, it was due the way those in charge countered via violent and forceful actions that these protests gained a national and/or international spotlight, and intensified the outcry against the injustices that were being protested. This, in turn, ended up speeding up reform.
Gandhi and MLK got what they wanted because of the violence on the other side, not their side.
Let’s take a look at the current protests...
George Floyd pleading for his life while being forced in a neck hold sparked an international outcry and mass protests that took place despite being in the midst of a pandemic.
Rioting and looting intensified the response against the protests, prompting many to cry for a need to establish law and order, and spurring to action various militias, fed agencies, and riot police.
Trump took advantage of this situation from a PR perspective and sent soldiers and tear gas flying to clear a pathway through peaceful protesters to establish a photo op session as the leader of this push for law and order. This action by Trump sparked a huge national outcry, including an outcry against riot police in general.
Now, I ask you, which of these three actions promoted your message and which of these took away from your message? After answering that, examine, if you will, which side was violent in each?
See the correlation?
Time to change your strategy.
Sacrifice can still be made.
“If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.