"Trump’s anti-antifa statements commit rhetorical violence, and provoke physical violence, in a number of directions. For one, it is a historical racist trope to suggest that black communities could not rise up and self-organize huge revolutionary action. In every major city, it is abundantly clear that these uprisings are being led by young black people. The promulgating of outside agitator myths is an affront to the agency of communities organizing on the front lines of these battles. The divide-and-conquer strategy is as old and tired as any “bad protester versus good protester” dyad, which again and again distracts from the plague of police violence attending every moment of antiracist protest. It just so happens that it was a strategy favored by the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1930s, the Klan issued flyers in Alabama stating that “paid organizers for the communists are only trying” to get black people “in trouble.” As James Baldwin wrote in 1961, “It is a notion which contains a gratuitous insult implying, as it does, that Negroes can make no move unless they are manipulated.”"

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/tru ... signation/

These conversations are insane. Talk of how groups are out "targeting white neighborhoods" tonight. Stories of people dropping bricks off highway overpasses (but always beginning with "Someone told me that they heard..."). Police stations are going to be under siege. People saying that they're going to sleep with their shoes on. "Stay safe!" "Pray for our police officers!" "So sad in our country right now!"

Shout out to the woman who posted right in the middle of this: "Does anyone install air conditioners?"

I just got back from a BLM protest directly around the block from my condo. it was one of the most emotional experiences i have ever had. we talked the cops into kneeling with us. one of them had the same pearl jam stickman tattoo i have, he was obviously cool. the energy was absolutely overwhelming.

there's also a group of idiot white guys walking around with bats to "protect their neighborhood" but the BLM protest completely overshadowed them. i have such a rush from what i was just a part of. with everything happening around the country and in my city, in addition to just finding out an old friend passed away, this really lifted me up.

Happened in Minneapolis.

People in my suburban neighborhood are freaking out on Facebook when someone sets off fireworks. "Are the protests coming here now?!"

JFC

Do people randomly set off fireworks in your neighborhood? Is it some sort of holiday or is that just a common thing in the US?

Do people randomly set off fireworks in your neighborhood? Is it some sort of holiday or is that just a common thing in the US?

We thought they were fireworks but it was actually someone pipe-bombing ATMs, which is like the perfect crime.

Is that the dude that blew himself up in the attempt, or someone else? Philly does love explosives...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

Where do you live? This sounds a lot like Philly...

One of the guys blew himself up last night but it's happening again now

this happened a couple blocks from where i live. i havent heard as many bombs as last night, but i heard a bunch of gun shots earlier.

i cant believe i just typed that.

Lmao so you were at the Fishtown protest? I'm in Brewerytown.

The peaceful protest in my city had a couple hundred white people, 2-3 “instigators” that instigated nothing, and this really tough hombre on his way to a Call of Duty convention.