What is it you wanted me to reconcile myself to? I was born here almost 60 years ago, I’m not gonna live another 60 years. You always told me it takes time. It’s taken my father’s time, my mother’s time. My uncle’s time. My brother’s and my sister’s time. My nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want? For your progress.

James Baldwin, 1989

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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    16 days ago

    if you had opened with, “We don’t need to worry about defending our communities because we can always just rely on the cops to protect us” then I would’ve just laughed in your face.

    I would have too. That would be fucking absurd. Can you please top whacking at straw men and actually address my points?

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
      3·
      16 days ago

      If it came down to it, and say, all the MAGAs in the South and in rural areas of blue states “rose again” and tried to take the streets by force, they would soon get a wake up call, because even the vast majority of police wouldn’t join their ranks (as crazy as that may sound to those of us on the left - there are “good” cops out there who believe in the myth that we were taught growing up about what cops should be - to serve and protect the public).

      “We don’t need to worry about defending our communities because we can always just rely on the cops to protect us”

      How are these two statements meaningfully different?