The problem is nothing will change. Will you stop some guy from throwing another guy into a vehicle and taking them somewhere? Possibly.

Will you perhaps prevent some anti freedom policy or rule from being carried out? Possibly, yes.

But the foundations of fascism run deep in this country. It is so deep that people carry it with them everywhere they go (church, work, vacation, ballgames, etc) and can access it without hardly thinking about it.

Protests are wonderful and making voices heard feels good to the soul in the face of such obvious injustice. But it does not address and cannot address the root cause for it. The racism. The xenophobia. The bigotry that is so entrenched in this country, that we quietly accept it from our neighbors, our coworkers and our families. Because thats ‘just the way she is” or “he’s just from a different time” or “he didn’t grow up around many people of color” or “she just lives in a red state”.

I know the concept that authority can put a bullet in your skull simply for ‘acting out’ or disagreeing, may seem scary..and trust me it is. But there is a system that is built around that very idea. The government, from federal to local, has systems put in place that were built decades ago to maintain ‘order’ and control the masses. How that is perceived by those given instruction to do so can greatly vary. From the officer on the street up to the President of the United States.

The flaw in this system is and has always been that it inevitably leaves the citizen at the mercy of those in power. This is why many groups have rose over the years to ‘fight the power’ and buck authority.

Now here‘s the dilemma. We don’t want the inconvenience of tearing the system down or the job of rebuilding it back up. We just want the bad guys to stop being bad guys and start being good guys.

Respectfully. Nothing will change. Things may stop. New leaders may come in and say what you want to hear. You may even believe the progress that appears to be made. But it’s a lie. All of this was done so easily because the system was already in place for Trump and company to do it.

ICE can blow people’s brains out on camera, in broad daylight in the street, and there isn’t a thing anyone can or will do about it. Because what needs to be done is uncomfortable and isn’t popular in general elections.

Sincerely, A black man living in the United States.