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. Even being here by way of gentrification, they get it. They understand systemic racism.Even Washingtonian white conservatives aren’t going to have a knee-jerk, triggered, hyper-sensitive-to-white-victimhood response. All of this ain’t shit to a person in D.C.I wish I got a chance to talk to that couple that got yelled at. One thing for certain, is that if they show up crying in front of a camera, that mess is theater. They’ll be alright. This is D.C.<h1 id="3e50">Conservatives are blatant liars</h1><figure id="f65d"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*ld6stXdQCm8wHAZijkXn7w.jpeg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>This brings me to my next point. I’ve seen a LOT of conservative whiteness rangers (defenders of white supremacy regardless of race) rant and rave about the behavior of the protester yelling.The big one that I want to point out is the “is this how you get other people to support your cause?” The modified version of this is the “this pushes folk into white supremacy”. type of statement.Both statements are doing the same thing: assuming support is tethered to how one is personally treated, and assuming opposition is tethered to how one is personally treated. I’m going to talk about both.Protesters being mean to white people aren’t making white people white supremacists. A preexisting agreement with white supremacy, makes white people (or anyone!) white supremacists.<h2 id="35c3">Yelling in faces makes you racist?</h2>White people, like the young couple in the photograph, are not made into white supremacists because one day a black person yelled in their face. If you believe that, that’s a pretty damning testimony of white fragility. I — personally as a nonwhite person who isn’t subject to this damning judgement — would hope that white people aren’t that fragile, unstable and/or stupid. It’s in a way tangentially racist to even consider this a reality.No; a white person who is a white supremacist, or supports white supremacy, was already there. Trust me on that.The length of human life roughly 70–80 years on this planet. There’s no way being yelled at while eating — for 3 minutes out of a whole 70–80 year lifespan — is going to create a white supremacist out you. You either already hate black people or hate black people speaking up. Or both. You were already there. Reinforce preexisting biases? Sure. But those biases, already existed. Let’s not miss that part.<h2 id="fdf2">You support causes based on the behavior of folk? Lies.</h2>White people, like the young couple in that photograph, are not bound to support folk based on the “good behavior” of those with causes. While strategy concerning optics ARE a valid concern, the notion that “I would have supported you but you was an asshole to me”, or any argument with this premise, is bullshit. While I always knew the notion that “support is attached to behavior” was a lie, I never found better proof of this lie than the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.With the diversity of Trump supporters I’ve met, all those who I’ve spoken to are in agreement that Trump’s behavior and conduct — bullying people, including his own party members and appointees — is actually a thing. Instead of pretending his bullying, irrational and asinine conduct doesn’t exist, they make excuses for it, and more importantly, still support him. Trump is NEVER wrong, even in his unpresidential behavior regardless of the lack of responsibility he has for his own decisions as a sitting president.Oh, by the way, those people WILL vote for him again.So no, your support is NOT attached to “good behavior.” While optics to prevent disinformation campaigns is a sound strategy, being super-perfect ethereal saints just to get a point across isn’t real. As a matter of fact, you conservatives have a word to attack people who do that: virtue signaling (which is worth it’s own column).I even asked around about this. When someone says “I support peaceful protests”, I often ask, “what is your support?” Each time someone, especially conservative, says they support “peaceful protests” and you ask them what is this cherished support they give, no one ever answers this. It’s almost like there’s no such thing as “support” for peaceful protest. Do you participate? Donate? Which, what is it? What is this support you speak of? Saying you support peaceful protest, is just another one of those polite American lies. This bold-faced lie exist in the same nest as “supporting the troops.” What exactly is this support of yours? Stop lying, please.Even further… there’s something very wrong with dangling your notio

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nal, fictional support as if it’s a carrot on a stick, only to pretend the wind placed it out of reach when all it took was the flick of your wrist. Support for a noble cause isn’t supposed to be something presented like a bone to an obedient dog; it’s something YOU totally stand for, unwaveringly, regardless of the furrowed brow of the oppressed.If getting loud in your face makes you racist, it wasn’t really the catalyst that made you racist.In addition to that, what purpose does the reverse serve if not an explicit threat? “Yo don’t get at me bro or else I’ll get racist on your ass.” Well shit, do you have the noose in the trunk of your car right now? How long have you been waiting for an excuse to be racist? You’re gonna call the KKK? Richard Spencer? Out-source police violence, like how these Karens keep doing? How long you’ve had neo-Nazis or whatever race-warriors on speed dial? Are you literally waiting for your moment to be racist?All jokes aside, if getting loud in your face makes you racist, it wasn’t really the catalyst that made you racist. If you think this, you implicitly think low of white people whom you suggest this effect.<h1 id="b958">After Action Review:</h1>I’m definitely going to do a better job out here with the documenting these things. Upon further review, it’s best to record these things so white supremacy enablers, Trumpists, and fascists (did I just say fascists three times?) have a harder time filling in the blanks in what I call “narrative control” (worthy of it’s own article). Unfortunately I do not have video, because I naturally asked questions versus pulling out my phone or setting my camera to video-record. But now and this event, please observe these other photos:<figure id="69d5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*Zg5niIxd8Q43kFul0YPM3Q.jpeg"><figcaption><a href="https://www.instagram.com/herbalist_indeed/">“The Earl Guy”</a> found at the protest site, early. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/earls1st/">Earl’s 1st Amendment Grill</a> is a roving food shop that feds people based on donations.</figcaption></figure><figure id="1bb7"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*H4GDIIhyoVZ3q1n-yDynXw.jpeg"><figcaption>Protesters at march, moving north on 14th Street. Note the diversity of the crowd. These are the things we need more discourse on. These are the things we need to focus on: where folk agree, and how.</figcaption></figure><figure id="5728"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*7xM6gTuUBstZpu0hSaM5TA.jpeg"><figcaption>A car crash that occurred while the protest was static (i.e., yet to march off). This car crash into this street light as seemingly a very high speed for how short inner-city roads are. The man on the ground was the driver of the car who stepped out of the vehicle and collapsed on the ground. With vehicular manslaughter being a common weapon of white supremacists during protests, this crash is assessed to not be related to, or targeting the protesters. No one was hurt other than the driver.</figcaption></figure><figure id="dca8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*w6QHylRWP_eXLUbXF-SwPw.jpeg"><figcaption>This should be the image Raws Media should point out. The eyes on a considerate young white male who is present, demanding justice for Jacob Blake (and all those others who are murdered by police, before this). Why aren’t you speaking on humanity defending humanity? His eyes are partially covered, but I challenge you to stare at them. This young man gives a damn; he’s not failing this humanity test.</figcaption></figure><figure id="5b00"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*G0V8o7ovyNwRtOlzz6UoHw.jpeg"><figcaption>The eyes of a white white woman demanding justice for Jacob Blake. She too, seeks to not fail the humanity test. Being able to say the words “black lives matter”, is a starting point. Many refuse even that. Not her on this day. The beauty behind these protests is the fact that these young men and women will grow older and perhaps become lawyers, legislatures and governors of the future.</figcaption></figure><figure id="dfd9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*KsmxAujXQlrS3kzJywLAJA.jpeg"><figcaption>Young white woman with a protest sign, “No Justice, No Peace”, locking eyes with the lens.</figcaption></figure>Overall, there’s definitely a place for media entities to document occurrences, as I have no issue with Raws Media. But as the recipient of the news… if you ever wondered what happened next, or what did those people think, and that media entity doesn’t cover that… you might be getting manipulated for likes and shares. Click bait is a real thing. Please continue to question everything. Maybe you too, can be inspired to show up and question things as well.</article></body>

Conservatives who Demand Kindness for Their Support are Bold-Faced Liars

And I’ll tell you why.

A day after Jacob Blake was shot in the back close range by police in Kenosha, WI, a young white couple eating outdoors was yelled at for their denial raising fists in solidarity. Justice for Jacob Blake March for Police Accountability, Washington D.C., August 24, 2020. Photography Credit: Johnny Silvercloud

Justice for Jacob Blake March, Washington D.C.

Long story short? I was there for this.

Short story long? This day, Aug 24th 2020, was one of the rare moments where I caught a protest to document before it starts. Not only that, but I also saw the event that’s getting a good amount of airplay with Raws Media: A young white couple seated outdoors at a restaurant being yelled at by a protester.

So let’s talk about that, and more.

Yes, that young nice-looking couple got yelled at. No, no threats occurred. No, they were not threatened with violence. Yes, cops where there and clearly didn’t see an issue as no one was arrested, grabbed, or even spoken to by a cop. The occurrence lasted as long as the video shows, but the bigger picture was what the cameras didn’t show. After that couple went inside to pay their check, the protest left, along with their near-mainstream media cameras, and moved south on 14th Street, towards where the protest began.

I, with both cameras at my hip, sat down in the now vacant seat (where the woman was) and spoke to the restaurant folk outside.

I was interested in four things:

· Why they raised their fists;

· What did they think of the protesters (yelling at the couple)

· What did they think of the couple;

· What did they understand concerning police lack of accountability (national police conduct, not DC metro PD)

Why they raised their fists

First and foremost, the other restaurant folk there, totally, raised their fists in solidarity with the protest. This question was a bit important because to my analytical eye I wondered in my head were they intimidated into doing so. I’m an U.S. Army vet; I know what coercion is.

So… were they?

Those people, ranging from early twenties to maybe in their fifties, totally get it. They raised their fists in support because they were in support, not because they felt threatened or feared anything. They were not bullied into any of that. They did what they did because they genuinely wanted to.

What did they think of the protesters

As I said before, they get it. I didn’t have to waste time talking to them, all I had to do is listen. I didn’t have to explain racism, frustration or anger of repeated national abuse of black people.

I didn’t gather their jobs or profession. I don’t know their varying education levels. But I know they get it. If my Black self do not have to explain systemic racism to a white person, that’s indicative of a set of white folk who took a huge step long before I even got there. They genuinely didn’t need a lecture on Systemic Racism 101. They unanimously do not blame the protester or protesters, for their frustration, anger and yelling. They do not blame the protesters for anything.

What did they think of the couple

The rest of the restaurant goers were overall, appalled by the young white couple’s behavior. What I noticed was the smug smirk on the young white woman. The smirk was pretty… sadistically apathetic, and narcissist.

The restaurant crowd figured the same thing. What I saw was congruent with what they saw as they described how they felt about that couple. One white man was baffled on the fact that he is older and as a younger group he’d expect them to be understanding.

What did they understand (concerning police lack of accountability murdering mostly black folk)

I’m repeating myself, but that group understood the issue at hand. They didn’t need lecture. They didn’t make a big thing out of this event (and neither should you).

The thing that everyone needs to understand is that THIS IS WASHINGTON D.C.; there’s a protest every single day. No one is moved by white victimhood like that. These Washingtonian folk — smoking majority white in this case — are not going to have a knee-jerk triggered response like the smoking majority of white conservatives across the country. Even being here by way of gentrification, they get it. They understand systemic racism.

Even Washingtonian white conservatives aren’t going to have a knee-jerk, triggered, hyper-sensitive-to-white-victimhood response. All of this ain’t shit to a person in D.C.

I wish I got a chance to talk to that couple that got yelled at. One thing for certain, is that if they show up crying in front of a camera, that mess is theater. They’ll be alright. This is D.C.

Conservatives are blatant liars

This brings me to my next point. I’ve seen a LOT of conservative whiteness rangers (defenders of white supremacy regardless of race) rant and rave about the behavior of the protester yelling.

The big one that I want to point out is the “is this how you get other people to support your cause?” The modified version of this is the “this pushes folk into white supremacy”. type of statement.

Both statements are doing the same thing: assuming support is tethered to how one is personally treated, and assuming opposition is tethered to how one is personally treated. I’m going to talk about both.

Protesters being mean to white people aren’t making white people white supremacists. A preexisting agreement with white supremacy, makes white people (or anyone!) white supremacists.

Yelling in faces makes you racist?

White people, like the young couple in the photograph, are not made into white supremacists because one day a black person yelled in their face. If you believe that, that’s a pretty damning testimony of white fragility. I — personally as a nonwhite person who isn’t subject to this damning judgement — would hope that white people aren’t that fragile, unstable and/or stupid. It’s in a way tangentially racist to even consider this a reality.

No; a white person who is a white supremacist, or supports white supremacy, was already there. Trust me on that.

The length of human life roughly 70–80 years on this planet. There’s no way being yelled at while eating — for 3 minutes out of a whole 70–80 year lifespan — is going to create a white supremacist out you. You either already hate black people or hate black people speaking up. Or both. You were already there. Reinforce preexisting biases? Sure. But those biases, already existed. Let’s not miss that part.

You support causes based on the behavior of folk? Lies.

White people, like the young couple in that photograph, are not bound to support folk based on the “good behavior” of those with causes. While strategy concerning optics ARE a valid concern, the notion that “I would have supported you but you was an asshole to me”, or any argument with this premise, is bullshit. While I always knew the notion that “support is attached to behavior” was a lie, I never found better proof of this lie than the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

With the diversity of Trump supporters I’ve met, all those who I’ve spoken to are in agreement that Trump’s behavior and conduct — bullying people, including his own party members and appointees — is actually a thing. Instead of pretending his bullying, irrational and asinine conduct doesn’t exist, they make excuses for it, and more importantly, still support him. Trump is NEVER wrong, even in his unpresidential behavior regardless of the lack of responsibility he has for his own decisions as a sitting president.

Oh, by the way, those people WILL vote for him again.

So no, your support is NOT attached to “good behavior.” While optics to prevent disinformation campaigns is a sound strategy, being super-perfect ethereal saints just to get a point across isn’t real. As a matter of fact, you conservatives have a word to attack people who do that: virtue signaling (which is worth it’s own column).

I even asked around about this. When someone says “I support peaceful protests”, I often ask, “what is your support?” Each time someone, especially conservative, says they support “peaceful protests” and you ask them what is this cherished support they give, no one ever answers this. It’s almost like there’s no such thing as “support” for peaceful protest. Do you participate? Donate? Which, what is it? What is this support you speak of? Saying you support peaceful protest, is just another one of those polite American lies. This bold-faced lie exist in the same nest as “supporting the troops.” What exactly is this support of yours? Stop lying, please.

Even further… there’s something very wrong with dangling your notional, fictional support as if it’s a carrot on a stick, only to pretend the wind placed it out of reach when all it took was the flick of your wrist. Support for a noble cause isn’t supposed to be something presented like a bone to an obedient dog; it’s something YOU totally stand for, unwaveringly, regardless of the furrowed brow of the oppressed.

If getting loud in your face makes you racist, it wasn’t really the catalyst that made you racist.

In addition to that, what purpose does the reverse serve if not an explicit threat? “Yo don’t get at me bro or else I’ll get racist on your ass.” Well shit, do you have the noose in the trunk of your car right now? How long have you been waiting for an excuse to be racist? You’re gonna call the KKK? Richard Spencer? Out-source police violence, like how these Karens keep doing? How long you’ve had neo-Nazis or whatever race-warriors on speed dial? Are you literally waiting for your moment to be racist?

All jokes aside, if getting loud in your face makes you racist, it wasn’t really the catalyst that made you racist. If you think this, you implicitly think low of white people whom you suggest this effect.

After Action Review:

I’m definitely going to do a better job out here with the documenting these things. Upon further review, it’s best to record these things so white supremacy enablers, Trumpists, and fascists (did I just say fascists three times?) have a harder time filling in the blanks in what I call “narrative control” (worthy of it’s own article). Unfortunately I do not have video, because I naturally asked questions versus pulling out my phone or setting my camera to video-record. But now and this event, please observe these other photos:

“The Earl Guy” found at the protest site, early. Earl’s 1st Amendment Grill is a roving food shop that feds people based on donations.

Protesters at march, moving north on 14th Street. Note the diversity of the crowd. These are the things we need more discourse on. These are the things we need to focus on: where folk agree, and how.

A car crash that occurred while the protest was static (i.e., yet to march off). This car crash into this street light as seemingly a very high speed for how short inner-city roads are. The man on the ground was the driver of the car who stepped out of the vehicle and collapsed on the ground. With vehicular manslaughter being a common weapon of white supremacists during protests, this crash is assessed to not be related to, or targeting the protesters. No one was hurt other than the driver.

This should be the image Raws Media should point out. The eyes on a considerate young white male who is present, demanding justice for Jacob Blake (and all those others who are murdered by police, before this). Why aren’t you speaking on humanity defending humanity? His eyes are partially covered, but I challenge you to stare at them. This young man gives a damn; he’s not failing this humanity test.

The eyes of a white white woman demanding justice for Jacob Blake. She too, seeks to not fail the humanity test. Being able to say the words “black lives matter”, is a starting point. Many refuse even that. Not her on this day. The beauty behind these protests is the fact that these young men and women will grow older and perhaps become lawyers, legislatures and governors of the future.

Young white woman with a protest sign, “No Justice, No Peace”, locking eyes with the lens.

Overall, there’s definitely a place for media entities to document occurrences, as I have no issue with Raws Media. But as the recipient of the news… if you ever wondered what happened next, or what did those people think, and that media entity doesn’t cover that… you might be getting manipulated for likes and shares. Click bait is a real thing. Please continue to question everything. Maybe you too, can be inspired to show up and question things as well.