2020 RETROSPECTIVE
IN DE FE NSE OF ANGER
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ately, there’s been a lot of talk about the angry people of the world. We look at the “angry” looters, the “angry” protestors, the “angry” politicians and the “angry” rhetoric surrounding police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. We look at the “angry” in the world, and say, there should be peace. Let’s be civil, we say. Let’s solve it the way that Martin Luther King Jr. solved it, the way that Ghandi solved it.
Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery didn’t start these protests. We have been led here today from the moment the first slave ships docked in American ports in 1619. It has been 400 years, and in that time there have been countless atrocities committed against enslaved people and the black population, much of which has not been recorded, watched, and listened to. People of color have been tired and angry. People of color have been shouting from the rooftops for a very long time, But didn’t we shoot Dr. King? Didn’t we and it is only now, in this wave of intense beat and arrest 80,000 peaceful Salt and burning anger, that the people on March participants? Didn’t we resist the street below are starting to notice. the change in status quo, time and time again in history, with violence? Now, in the wake of a pandemic that has failed black and brown communities and The thing is, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, exposed the rotten core of America’s racist 9
