Why are they still protesting? What do they want?

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LilyM said:
Have they really? Do you think Trump has heard them?
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Possibly and what he sees is that reform needs to take place in the states where this injustice started. Seems like they already de-funded the police in Minneapolis because two of the four policemen accused of aiding and abetting were only on the force for a very short time… More money for training not less seems to be needed…
 
RolandThompsonGunner said:
This makes it sound like you’re not really asking in good faith. The protestors aren’t an official hierarchy with a manifesto and an itemized list of demands.
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I am asking a most serious question. The protests have been going on for over a week. No requests for a response have been made. There is general dissatisfaction with the racial inequality, but there is no demand for action to remedy the situation.
The problem seems to be with police brutality and racism. This has been identified as a problem in every city and state. Now the protests have spread to other countries as well.
The world is waking up to the problem with race relations and racial prejudice.

Other than organizing mass marches, what else could/should be done?
 
MamaJewel said:
I’m also furious at the ongoing harassment of blacks and other minority groups by the powers that be.
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MamaJewel, are you also upset at the black on black violence? Seems like this also needs to be addressed. Some of the businesses that were burned and looted belonged to black owners… they put their whole lives into the businesses. Some may never recover… Where is the justice?
 
Irishmom2, Do you not think if that part ZemD quoted was in there it’s a problem???
 
Adamek said:
Yes. I understand all of that. But what do they want today. As I watch the crowds gather once again in all the major US cities, my question is - what do you want to see happen today?
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Major police reform and accountability.
 
I heard that Minneapolis has already made changes–new rules for police interaction with citizens. Good start, right?
 
I think you should read it in it’s entirety, not fragments of paragraphs or sentences.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
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Adamek:
If you are one of the protesters, then share with us - what do you want?
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I went on a protest a couple days ago because I wanted my neighbors and community to know I cared about them and wanted to do what I could to make them feel more secure and less sad, scared, or uncomfortable.

I also get tired of some of the people in this area being scared of every big gathering that comes to town, whether it’s a George Floyd march or a Trump rally. I think a lot of people here (and also in other places) need to get a grip on reality.

I am okay with our local police (they were at the protest too, their chief and the county sheriff marched and spoke at the rally), and whether Trump stays or goes is irrelevant to what happens in the local areas I frequent.
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What about Mass, were you still able to get to Mass or is it closed due to Covid-19?
 
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Yeah, I am kind of wondering what they expect the end game to be? Any outcome is going to be done mostly at the local and state level, and will take time to sort out.

What is going to be the signal that they can go home, I wonder.
 
Some of the protesters are tired of the Covid Virus shut down, being shut in and bored and broke, and are happy to have a legitimate reason to be out and about and experience excitement. I believe this has extended the days of rioting. It’s Spring.
 
I’m not sure there really is a just cause for this seemingly perennial protest, in perspective. Now, of course we must acknowledge the genuine injustices many people still encounter.

But regarding “big R” institutional Racism, an enduring residual prejudice will always exist in society between people who are different. Fundamentally however, the issue of institutional racism doesn’t exist in a material way in the West in these modern days- Barack Obama as president showed this. General equality of opportunity also points to this. The meshing of cultures through globalization, will by its very nature take time- there will always remain people who will use race as a dividing issue. But we in the west are very much far ahead of many societies on “diversity”, and this is taken for granted- look at the far East, middle East, Africa in this same regard for example.

Changing peoples hearts, i.e. small mindedness on one side, or indeed inferiority complex on the other, is about something deeper than “social justice”. It’s about God, religion, morality.
 
PatienceAndHumility said:
I’m not sure there really is a just cause for this seemingly perennial protest, in perspective. Now, of course we must acknowledge the genuine injustices many people still encounter.

But regarding “big R” institutional Racism, an enduring residual prejudice will always exist in society between people who are different. Fundamentally however, the issue of institutional racism doesn’t exist in a material way in the West in these modern days- Barack Obama as president showed this. General equality of opportunity also points to this. The meshing of cultures through globalization, will by its very nature take time- there will always remain people who will use race as a dividing issue. But we in the west are very much far ahead of many societies on “diversity”, and this is taken for granted- look at the far East, middle East, Africa in this same regard for example.

Changing peoples hearts, i.e. small mindedness on one side, or indeed inferiority complex on the other, is about something deeper than “social justice”. It’s about God, religion, morality.
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Posts loke.this are the exact reason we need protests to increase awareness.

One in eight Americans is African-American, more than this are Hispanic-American. Yet in your whole history only one person of colour and no Hispanic-American that I am aware of has even been nominated by a major party either as President or VP.

That you have had a black President is certainly a great start, but nowhere near enough that you are entitled to rest on it as if it were a laurel of some sort. Nor is it any sort of evidence that institutional racism is dead. Starting to die, please God, but not dead.
 
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You cannot simply undo centuries of silo’d cultures with a couple generations of globalisation (leaving aside the separate issue of globalisation itself). My point is that racism in the West does not exist institutionally in a material way, like many wish to point out. There are of course exceptions to the rule and you will get those on the fringes who espouse small minded views. Protest can be justified, but widespread outrage in Western countries over racism is quite simply an overreach, which points to deeper issues. Like loss of God etc.

The West is the bastion for modern “diversity”, pursuing this goal of absolute equality (i.e. the eradication of cultures), for the wrong reasons. Society can exist in harmony, without expecting absolute equality. In other words, the pursuit of Absolute equality is the error of Babel. Pax Christi!
 
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