Cops teargassed my whole neighborhood, including parents holding children, to crush anti-racist protests. The mayor claimed a mere list of Black people killed by the police was actually a death threat against her personally. Their definition of "peaceful" is "totally obedient and powerless"
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David Forbes
"Peaceful protest," when used by governments, police departments and most non-profits today, means something very different than what civil rights organizers meant by "nonviolence." It means passive, polite, ignorable and easily controllable...
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There is no protest nice enough that those in power will go "sorry about that, we won't be oppressive anymore." The question is what actually challenges their power in ways they can't stop.