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April 25 2015 - Protesters take to the streets in Baltimore to express their anger over the Death of Freddie Gray, who was murdered by police.  [video]

Yup. Protesting against violence with more violence. Because that totally fucking works. I swear to god these protesters are fucking stupid half the damn time.

They should probably learn about Martin Luther King Jr. Read his “I have a dream” speech, in which he specifically says violence will not help.

Or maybe You should learn more about MLK than the one speech by him that they constantly repeat because it is nice and friendly and toothless?

Whites need to keep MLK’s name out their mouths before they catch this fade

whtie people fucking love to meme the hell out of MLK when its the tame as hell middle school assembly version

White people MLK isnt some prophet for you to invoke every time you want black people to be respectable 

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Seriously. That last line. White folk, what MLK was doing in the 60s was ILLEGAL. That’s why he insisted on passive resistance, because then they were not at fault, but they were still sitting at tables and drinking out of fountains and sitting in buses illegally. It was AGAINST THE LAW. Y'all would be telling him to behave, probably. Because that’s what you do. Everything has to be civilised. Respectable. Docile. Toothless.

But after a while that loses its sting, because what armed force is going to just out their weapons down because a bunch of people protest in a respectable manner??

The unspoken threat behind the protests of the civil rights movement was ‘imagine what would happen if we all got angry.’ It seems people have forgotten that statement. Now they’re being reminded - and maybe rather than scold and waggle your whitesplain finger at the protestors for being naughty, ask yourself why people feel the need to get this level of angry in the first place.

You could maybe start by counting how many people of colour have been killed in the past six months by police…

Not gonna lie, the violence against black people here in the US has me scared as hell. I’m white, yeah, but a lot of friends of mine, people I love and care about are black. Whenever I see shit on the news about some innocent person being gunned down by police it not only breaks my heart it terrifies me that it could happen to someone I love. I live in fear that a friend of mine is going to be a victim of this and I hate it. 

I have two bits to add here:

1. Unless the white person is being racist, don’t tell them to shut up. They’re mostly trying to help or show support.

2. As a white male who currently is getting higher education, it scares me when people feel the need to turn to violence for protest, especially in a case like this. Yes, the Birmingham police are in the wrong, but by rioting and looting, you’re proving a bad point.

The point you want to get across is “black lives matter”. What you get by rioting is “riots will ensue in place of protest”.

Know what you should do? For one, don’t support rioting. I saw pictures from Baltimore while my girlfriend scrolled through Tumblr, and you know what I saw? A car with “I’m looking for my son” written on the back of it. My first thought was (as a person who loves movies) “oh cool, new zombie movie?” Then I checked the caption. Those words shouldn’t have to be written on a van.

For those of you protesting the Baltimore police treatment of Freddy Gray, good on ya, don’t break shit but protest! Make it known that this won’t stand!

Those of you rioting, you’re as bad as an uneducated voter. You can complain about how things work, but the only time things will change is if you take initiative. Rioting is not that initiative. It’s detrimental to the end goal.

TL;DR stop fucking rioting you piece of shit humans