[Ammi]

...I did watch the vid you posted btw, Swan...I watched it yesterday but was a little tired to post...the lady is a former Aide to the Obama’s and has spoken publicly about a few different things...(...one of them being mental health...)...that’s just a by the by, not relevant to her words here...I mean, I don’t think that looting and rioting and destroying livelihoods can ever be justified but a lot of the comments under the vid are referencing ‘ the movement’, which I presume is BLM ...and the destruction etc, isn’t BLM, it’s not the protesters...sadly though, there will sometimes be rioters and looters who attach themselves to protests like this..also, some comments referred to the lady as being ‘a real patriot’ ...BLM are real patriots as well I would say...they’re patriots who are trying to strive for some kind of equality for their lives....anyways, there have been massive, largely peaceful protests in many states, I believe...and those are being reported widely by those who are seeing the protests themselves/as opposed to some media type reporting....


...anyways, I was reading this yesterday as well and I found it an interesting read, so I’ll just leave it here ...(...or quotes from it and a link to the full article...)...because I think it also plays a part in USA events and frustrations atm, which have many layers to them...

‘Trump has repeatedly refused to condemn the 17-year-old militia member’s behavior, giving a partial and one-sided rendering of the violence that cast it as justifiable self-defense in a Monday night press conference...’...


‘Donald Trump has a very long history of inciting violence. “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell ... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees,” he told his supporters at a 2016 rally...’...

‘But we’re going through an especially tense period in American politics, with a high-stakes election in two months and bouts of street violence in several cities. In such an atmosphere, Trump’s habit of engaging in violent rhetoric goes well beyond playing with fire...’...

‘Judging by his tweets and the programming during the last week’s Republican National Convention, the president appears to genuinely believe that the chaos unfolding on American streets is good for him politically. The more violence there is, the more he can fearmonger about “Democrat-run cities” and “Joe Biden’s America” — distracting from America’s botched response to the Covid-19 virus...’...


...I’ll just leave it there with the quotes because the link is here, but yeah...interesting ....

https://www.vox.com/2020/9/1/2140903...nce-incitement


...I mean, there are just so many layers to the ‘long of it all’....but the ‘short of it’...I think is said very perfectly by the very wise and very peaceful Rev. Jesse Jackson...’we deserve better than that, we deserve better...’...equality deserves a law that doesn’t hold down a knee until all life has gone and shoots 7 times in the back, each one a potentially lethal shot...and it deserves justice, when these things happen, obviously...and it also deserves for them to not keep happening again and again and again...etc...