Everyone is in a rush to show how outraged they are. As they comfortably sit in their living rooms, sipping a La Croix and eating a bowl of steel cut oatmeal.
Oh wait, that's me.
I gotta get off social media for a bit. The memes are driving me nuts. Because I know how phony they are. Because they're cut and paste. Perhaps I'm the one who lost humanity. OR gain perspective. But if you take the identity away from the person...or in our business personae you realize...they aren't about making it about the cause. They're making it about them.
See, in the 1960's protest, no one had social media. So they couldn't broadcast how much they did for the cause. Did things change? Doesn't seem like it.
Now that everyone has a phone, have things changed? Doesn't look like it.
As I've said in previous blogs, society is VERY short sighted. The cop who murdered George Floyd will need to get due process. What we see now is mob justice. Outraged at O.J.'s trial? Sorry, he got due process. That's how it's suppose to work. And now the arrested officer won't get a fair trial. Ever. Media, social or otherwise, has destroyed the fabric of society by pitting everyone against each other and THEY should be held responsible. For the destruction and deaths.
But they won't. Because they are protected. And should be. Because we need to remind ourselves that we ARE free. But that also means free to do the right thing.
In this case, what was the right thing to make change happen? Was the destruction of small businesses the answer. Or did they hijack your cause.
Also, people may broadcast their support...but, truthfully, what people of color understand, we say other things when others aren't monitoring. And you do too. Stop the virtue signaling and come up with some ideas. Memes are easy, ideas to fix this issue are going to take work.
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