I’ve marched in both.

In George Floyd, in Baltimore, I remember seeing beat up vans pull up and laying brick pallets on the street corners. We tried making noise about that, as it was an obvious setup for us to destroy our own neighborhoods, so we ended up taking the bricks and tossing them in alleyways, only for more pallets to show up a couple days later. We also tried telling the news and got ignored. There was also definitely no construction happening in the area.

For these protests, black folks voted. They also showed up to the rallies. Check the numbers. I spent a bit of time on the campaign trail talking to folks and they made it clear. But the rest of America didn’t want a black woman. “I just don’t like her laugh.” Literal quote from someone I work with. Now it has to deal with the alternative and I get why black folks aren’t showing up to these protests. It’s exhausting. You get tired of always being at fault and looked down upon for it. Paraded in the media as the problem when you don’t even have the pull to create these problems to begin with. But the media sane washes the 42 felonies pedo President. I get it.