So after a week of protests, all four cops have been arrested, other cops are being arrested and/or investigated over their overreactions in other cases, Minneapolis may be disbanding their police force, other cities are demilitarizing their police, the Marines have banned Confederate flag symbols, Confederate statues are coming down, and even Republicans are starting to say “Black Lives Matter.”
But yet people are still saying “protests don’t accomplish anything.”
Every single black person you have ever met has a story to tell about how they were treated differently and how they are constantly wary of doing anything that some crazy karen or racist cop might take the wrong way.
Just like every woman can tell you a story about how she was mistreated, ignored, or passed over because of her gender.
If you’re not aware of that, then you’re part of the problem. (And maybe your “black friends” aren’t as close as you think they are if you are denying what every one of them experiences.)
“People who are protesting should not be destroying property!”
“Okay, then they’ll just block traffic.”
“Blocking traffic is something they shouldn’t be doing, either!”
“Okay, then they’ll just take a knee during the National Anthem.”
“No, they shouldn’t do that either!”
“So basically, you’re saying they should never protest ever.”
“It’s about time you got it.”
While I clearly am supportive of the Me Too movement, I am also a skeptic. We must listen to allegations from women, but that doesn’t mean we have to always believe them.
I’ve handled at least four cases I can think of off the top of my head where the woman made accusations — some tremendously more serious than this — and then later admitted she had lied. It does happen.
Read this article from a prosecutor who explains why he is skeptical as well.
And then read Biden’s comments this morning denying that anything happened.
Basically, if you read the article and imagine how a defense attorney would handle it in a trial, you’d probably not find him guilty. Then again, the standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” doesn’t apply to politics. Image is more important than fact.
Mind you, we Democrats tend to be very harsh on our own when these accusations are believable (see what happened to Al Franken). And what bugs me the most about this whole thing is seeing Republicans try to make this into an issue, given their candidate brags about sexually assaulting women.
Another reason why Democrats should have nominated Warren.
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