Thursday, May 28, 2020

Watching the Country Fall Apart

It's been a week of horrors. Perhaps the worst was the video of the murder of Floyd George (kneeling on a person's carotid artery is sure to cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain). This callous murder of a man who had been subdued (for no good reason) by four officers of the law was bad enough, but it also put into sinister light the Central Park confrontation between an irate white woman and the African-American birder who told her that she should leash her dog... she knew she was potentially 'calling in a hit'. Predictably, the cop who bears the most responsibility for the murder of Floyd George has a history of prior misconduct allegations. It's appalling how the good cops out there don't police their own, and allow the bad cops to besmirch the reputation of all cops.

Now, Minneapolis is the scene of a major, multi-day riot, complete with looting and arson... though, in a very twisted turn of events, the most publicized looting may very well have been kicked off by an undercover cop... that's a $250 respirator he's wearing, not the sort of thing that some rando would sport. There are also far-right Civil War 2.0 accelerationists infiltrating the crowds of protestors. It seems that Minneapolis, a city I remember fondly from a visit two decades ago, won't see peace for the foreseeable future.

In New York's Union Square, a protest was met with an aggressive police response, while on the other coast, a massive protest blocked roadways. This is going to be a summer of rage, most of it righteous rage, and I really don't see any coherent response to it, at least judging by what's going down in Minnesota. Cooler heads are needed to sort out the systemic problems of racist police procedures, but I don't think that there are any cooler heads in positions of authority.

7 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

More righteous protest, a super hurricane &/or a serious earthquake followed by a fall plague surge & we really could be toast.


At this point I'm numb enough that a giant cosmic object wouldn't be that surprising.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

With the burning of the precinct, I think a Rubicon has been crossed. I sure hope cooler heads prevail when the clampdown inevitably comes.

Marc McKenzie said...

"Cooler heads are needed to sort out the systemic problems of racist police procedures, but I don't think that there are any cooler heads in positions of authority. "

Sadly, there could have been a cooler head in the White House, but the wrong one was put in there thanks to what happened in 2016.

Cooler heads will have to be at the state and local level.

We've got a pandemic and now this, along with Trump and the GOP determined to keep skullfucking us until they are all voted out come election day. And honestly, I am out of patience with the fools who keep sitting in their purity corners mumbling about how "well, both Biden and Trump are the same, so I'm sitting this out" or "Biden has to earn my vote!".

Thousands dead, corruption afoot in the WH, one political party that is rotten to the core...and some still have to pull out the purity badge. Enough.

Anonymous said...

We know who is the Alpha group in America, don't we? White mainly Christian males of wealth. All the others - Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, women, youth, Muslims and any others I've forgotten - fall in behind them in the pecking order.

I have said since the Rodney King case that in our 'multiracial' country there is another race, one that exists to serve and protect the Alphas. That race is Blue. Individually and collectively they see themselves as genetically (figuratively if not literally) a group apart, and they circle the wagons whenever any one of them is threatened. The ties so strong that even African-American cops, who should know better, are bound by them.

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Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Sadly, there could have been a cooler head in the White House, but the wrong one was put in there thanks to what happened in 2016.

But, but, WOMEN ARE SO EMOTIONAL!!!

I have said since the Rodney King case that in our 'multiracial' country there is another race, one that exists to serve and protect the Alphas. That race is Blue

Yeah, they serve the Power Structure, not the General Public.