The video of the girl posing for a pic looking like a model citizen helping a shop owner was the final straw for me. The median of humanity is a selfish, self obsessed wannabe influencer.
To all the people who are protesting in good faith, for the right reasons and will continue to be doing so three months from now, good on you. Those who realize that if you want to make a difference by kneeling today, you need to be willing to kneel tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, all the way through June, July and august, each and every day. If the masses do that, then we MIGHT see tangible change. I fear however that this will go the way the MPH campaign went, the way the ALS ice bucket challenge went and the way the Joseph Kony thing went: it’ll be short term fixes that people get on board with because it’s the “in” thing, and it won’t get close to solving the long standing issue. Here in Canada, where coronavirus still exists (like it does almost everywhere else in the fecking world) and is an even more major threat to people of colour, thousands of people break social distancing guidelines and chant black lives matter. To not even be able to protest and maintain guidelines that will keep the people you are protesting for much safer from a deadly virus, is one of the most hypocritical things I’ve ever seen. There are ways to do things, and so many people are just not getting it.
To all the people who are protesting in good faith, for the right reasons and will continue to be doing so three months from now, good on you. Those who realize that if you want to make a difference by kneeling today, you need to be willing to kneel tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, all the way through June, July and august, each and every day. If the masses do that, then we MIGHT see tangible change. I fear however that this will go the way the MPH campaign went, the way the ALS ice bucket challenge went and the way the Joseph Kony thing went: it’ll be short term fixes that people get on board with because it’s the “in” thing, and it won’t get close to solving the long standing issue. Here in Canada, where coronavirus still exists (like it does almost everywhere else in the fecking world) and is an even more major threat to people of colour, thousands of people break social distancing guidelines and chant black lives matter. To not even be able to protest and maintain guidelines that will keep the people you are protesting for much safer from a deadly virus, is one of the most hypocritical things I’ve ever seen. There are ways to do things, and so many people are just not getting it.
