caitlinjohnstone | Democratic Party leaders are currently under fire
for staging a ridiculous performative display of sympathy for George
Floyd by kneeling for eight minutes while wearing Kente cloth, a
traditional African textile. The streets of America are filled with
protesters demanding a total overhaul of the nation’s entire approach to
policing. The Democratic Party’s response is to put on a children’s
play using black culture as a prop, and advance a toothless reform bill whose approach we’ve already established is worthless which will actually increase funding to police departments.
Meanwhile
it’s blue states with Democratic governors and cities with Democratic
mayors where the bulk of the police brutality people are objecting to is
occurring. The Democrats are going out of their way to spin police brutality
as the result of Trump’s presidency, but facts in evidence say
America’s violent and increasingly militarized police force would be a
problem if every seat in every office in America were blue.
I
don’t know what will happen with these protests. I don’t know if the
demonstrators will get anything like the changes they are pushing for,
or if their movement will be stopped in its tracks. What I do know is
that if it is stopped, it will be because of Democrats and their allies.
