You left out a key element of this. The official report first stated that the man “tripped and fell”... that Is, until the video emerged.

It kinds of reminds me of a small segment of my fellow progressive screaming about how police didn’t beat the shit out of Dylann Roof when they caught him, when the framing should be that nobody should be getting the shit beat out of them by police.

I can't tell if Amy's decision to show up is stupid or courageous. She could have literally prevented Floyd's death from happening. Literally. 

What do people think makes a protest effective? Effective protests always requires some element of perceived danger to the comfort of powerful people. And that will frequently involve some threat of disorder, destruction and possibly even violence. If people in power know protesters are just going to show up, with…

But if we bring this up, we’re accused of wanting the Republican to win...

They have a fetish for any Republican that shows the slightest hint of morality. Romney, Flake... It’s never the same one all the time though, it’s like they draw straws.

The media has a fetish for Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski’s guileless republican women act. Journalists love to invent a conscience for these women despite all evidence to the contrary. 

“I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time,”

Lea is hardly the only one who “doesn’t remember”. She still centers herself and her feelings with a statement like that as opposed to considering the people whom her ACTIONS hurt (as a result of those statements).

In my experience, assuming the worst about racists is often quite accurate.

At this point, I view anyone who trots out “all lives matter!” the same as those who fly the confederate battle flag.

Props on learning and growing.

My favorite irony in this is the same people yelling ALL LIVES MATTER are the same ones going all Ivan Drago on the population because they don’t want to wear a face mask.

These explanations are a waste of time. At this point, the people who are saying “All Lives Matter” know exactly what they’re doing. They’re deliberately refusing to recognize that racism is a thing. This is the same crowd who insist that there’s no such thing as white privilege.

The continued existence of confederate monuments throughout America (including places that weren’t even a part of the confederacy) is a perfect example of the contempt with which black Americans are viewed. Monuments to horrible racists abound in this country—George Washington, who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson who…

Cops hurting the horses might make more white people care about it though.

Have this thought. You probably ARE racist. Why? Hit dogs holler. If you come to The Root and feel any way other than empathy and sympathy, then yes. Maybe check yourself and your privilege and NOT come to a site for and by black folks. Clearly, you are not there to learn like the majority of the none POC that come to…

One other way people should try to be anti-racist (I legitimately have no clue if I’m going to be shouted down for this, but it’s something I definitely believe in) is if you are white and you see a person of color being harassed by the police for [insert BS reason for questioning African Americans for just living…