its a very strange feeling. the rioting looting is already this afternoon, its not even 5pm here, its violent, and there are patches that are within 10 blocks of my house.
its a very strange feeling. i am scared. it is different watching a live feed of another city's riots, to have it happen so close to your house. im scared of the protesters/rioters, but im also very scared of the police. im not really mad at either, i get that the riot cops are just trying to maintain order and that probably includes some level of violence, and that the protesters/rioters actions are also understandable. years of peaceful protests unanswered, no changes. but no one wins a riot. there are only losers in the morning.
wouldn't it be great if all those years, decades even, of peaceful protests had been listened to? why are we in a no-win scenario? no one will come out of tonight better than they entered it. its almost like fate. you suppress the power of the minority for so long, you dont help, you dont listen, you dont change, you dont improve, when its possible to keep it peaceful, make it easy, its inevitable at that point to get here. why does it have to be so hard? why do those in power not understand?