What most people do not understand

Do we really think that the people rioting should be peacefully demonstrating? I am not black but I get it. The killing of George Floyd was the tipping point, the end of tolerating what goes on in the country every single day. I understand the rage, the frustration the feeling that nothing they do will make a difference and that the police killings will continue. This has been going on for decades. This country was founded on slavery.

Trump has capitalized on his racist rhetoric, firing up his seriously sick base and dividing this nation. He’s calling on the military to use force to quell what is an understandable reaction of a group who have been marginalized, and who are getting sicker from Covid more often due to their poverty. Instead of behaving like a leader Trump is calling the governors weak while he hides in the basement of the White House.

I was in Baltimore in April 1968 when a riot broke out because of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Back then we hoped for a better world as we protested and stood up against the inequality and against the Vietnam war. But what helped us then was the images on television. Not only could we see the riots taking place, the deaths that brought the rage, but we also saw the body bags coming back. There is none of that now. The powers that be stopped it when they realized that this amount of death would not be…