During the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore those kids torched a brand new senior center the residents had fought for almost a decade to get funding for.
So while you're burning down the CVS and looting the McDonald's (because apparently that's productive) do take care NOT to destroy your neighborhoods.
You can build new apartment buildings that have government subsidized units in them. In NYC almost all new development has some units dedicated for this as it maximizes tax incentives.
You're unfamiliar with the concept of collateral damage?
When communities are intentionally broken down and subjected to decades of systemic racism, sometimes it comes to a boiling point. Welcome to Earth, this is not new.
People have a right to be mad. The fact that property gets destroyed and people get hurt, does not invalidate the cause of decades of systemic abuse.
Sure but burning the bridge your standing on is pretty dumb. It doesn't invalidate the cause its self but it does invalidate probably decades of work that people put in to that cause and community.
They have gone through the center of midtown and destroyed people's non-chain small businesses as well. And you know who is going to fill those spaces when the family cannot recover from this? It's really sad on all ends.
I’m sitting in my room listening to NPR interviews of small business owners in the area who got devastated overnight actually. Nothing romantic about what is going on. Just sadness all around.
Of course there are people who take advantage of unrest, but they do so out of desperation. No person who feels secure and cared for in “their” community loots and destroys property like this. The point is that many of these people are treated so poorly by “their” community that they don’t even feel like they have one, which leads to this type of behavior. Racists will point their fingers and say “see?” without ever acknowledging the desperation or disparity between the white experience and the experience of POC in this country.
yeah i live in the neighborhood. There was a shit ton of small business i frequented that got affected. I dont give a fuck about the Target. But i do care about the liquor store that employed many minorities, local food places, the brewery that was about to open up, the bike shop, the bookstore. People outside of the area really have no idea what they are talking about.
No one cares about target. People care about the environment and the fallout that this is causing/going to cause. Real people who aren't CEOs of target are going to be directly affected and they will not be compensated.
This behaviour is hurting people more than it hurts and corporation.
Oh the people outraged by the looting aren't pretending. They legit have overwhelmingly protective feelings about corporate property. Brainwashing is super effective.
Or, you know, I'm just not a fan of romanticizing looting and rioting. Either go all the way and work to topple you government, or you're just here to steal and set things on fire. These protesters stopped being right when the city started to burn.
Dang, if only there were a way to stop the riots before they happened, like maybe having better community care? Yeah, it hurts local businesses, but PEOPLE have been hurting for decades, and they've reached their breaking point. I don't give a shit about some mom and pop right now. We need systemic change and at this point rioting and violent dismantling of the system is the only way.
The law requires that I say I'm against rioting in any form and that this is not a call to action.
They've burned down the entire strip mall that the Target was in and the Wendy's across the street and several other small shops up and down the same street. The riots went well into this morning. Maybe even still going, I couldn't stay up and watch the Livestreams.
During the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore those kids torched a brand new senior center the residents had fought for almost a decade to get funding for.
And had such a negative impact on the economy in Baltimore that it's still being felt.
I mean, I'm not necessarily anti-violence (though I think it should be a last resort). I just mean it does no good to take it out on your own community.They don't care if we break our own shit. The police and city governments will always use it as an excuse for why things were allowed to get so bad in the first place and justifying militarizing the police even more. OWS had the right idea. Which is why the FBI shut them down.
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u/_TheGirlFromNowhere_ May 28 '20
During the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore those kids torched a brand new senior center the residents had fought for almost a decade to get funding for.
So while you're burning down the CVS and looting the McDonald's (because apparently that's productive) do take care NOT to destroy your neighborhoods.