Obama's White Grandma Crossing the Street
May. 31st, 2020 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraMinneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Las Vegas, Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines, Dallas, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Columbia, Wilmington, Portland, Phoenix, Tampa…
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I honestly don’t know what to think or how to feel.
Mobs are nuts. Mobs are dangerous. That they’re triggered by just cause doesn’t change their underlying insanity or danger.
Mobs are particularly nuts and dangerous in the middle of a pandemic.
It will be sobering to watch the incidence and mortality rates in the above-mentioned cities fourteen days from now.
African Americans were already dying at far higher rates from the virus. When you layer in the exposure to Sars-cov-2 virus by rioters and protestors, it seems to me that you are actually watching people self-destruct, ironically while affirming the importance of their own lives.
Of course, I suppose, the majority of those infected will not die. So maybe this is a fast track to herd immunity. Who knows?
Protests and riots are the actions most calculated to focus attention on a problem that keeps repeating itself over and over again. But do they solve the problem? What would solve the problem?
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gracegiver posted a video in which Trevor Noah rather astutely analyzes the various ways that George Floyd’s death represents a breach of the social contract.
Noah spends a good chunk of the analysis on the Central Park incident—and here, I could feel myself actually being triggered (and, yes, I hate that word) because what woman living in New York City has not had the experience of being scared to death by the looming presence of a large male stranger?
Is the color of the male’s skin a factor?
I’d like to say, No.
But if I’m being entirely honest, I’m Obama’s white grandmother crossing the street on that one.
So, you know. If not guilty, not entirely innocent, either.
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Anyway, I can’t take any more politics or pandemics. I donated to an NYC bail-funding go-fund-me for protestors ‘cause there but for the grace of God goes Max or Robin or your kid, but now I’m gonna check out, retreat entirely into my own little world of adorable animals and adorable plants:
Adorable Mr. Bunny! Durer-esque, no?
Adorable goslings:
Adorable garden:
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I honestly don’t know what to think or how to feel.
Mobs are nuts. Mobs are dangerous. That they’re triggered by just cause doesn’t change their underlying insanity or danger.
Mobs are particularly nuts and dangerous in the middle of a pandemic.
It will be sobering to watch the incidence and mortality rates in the above-mentioned cities fourteen days from now.
African Americans were already dying at far higher rates from the virus. When you layer in the exposure to Sars-cov-2 virus by rioters and protestors, it seems to me that you are actually watching people self-destruct, ironically while affirming the importance of their own lives.
Of course, I suppose, the majority of those infected will not die. So maybe this is a fast track to herd immunity. Who knows?
Protests and riots are the actions most calculated to focus attention on a problem that keeps repeating itself over and over again. But do they solve the problem? What would solve the problem?
###
gracegiver posted a video in which Trevor Noah rather astutely analyzes the various ways that George Floyd’s death represents a breach of the social contract. Noah spends a good chunk of the analysis on the Central Park incident—and here, I could feel myself actually being triggered (and, yes, I hate that word) because what woman living in New York City has not had the experience of being scared to death by the looming presence of a large male stranger?
Is the color of the male’s skin a factor?
I’d like to say, No.
But if I’m being entirely honest, I’m Obama’s white grandmother crossing the street on that one.
So, you know. If not guilty, not entirely innocent, either.
###
Anyway, I can’t take any more politics or pandemics. I donated to an NYC bail-funding go-fund-me for protestors ‘cause there but for the grace of God goes Max or Robin or your kid, but now I’m gonna check out, retreat entirely into my own little world of adorable animals and adorable plants:
Adorable Mr. Bunny! Durer-esque, no?
Adorable goslings:
Adorable garden:
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Date: 2020-05-31 11:43 pm (UTC)The Trevor Noah video is good.
Love your Durer rabbit and your goslings.
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Date: 2020-06-01 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-01 12:06 am (UTC)Albany had its larger peaceful protest yesterday afternoon, plus some property destruction last night. Saw some boarded-over businesses today on my ride home from work.
I also saw a lot of people wearing masks and social distancing at the bits of protest I glimpsed yesterday in Albany.
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Date: 2020-06-01 12:43 am (UTC)Oh, I'm not defending Amy Cooper in any way, shape or form: Her behavior was not only appalling but morally reprehensible to a disgusting degree.
I am imagining what my own reaction might be if I found myself in the Ramble at 8 in the morning, alone except for a large male stranger.
I'm glad to learn that people are looking out for their own safety at the protests.
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Date: 2020-06-01 11:37 am (UTC)