The vast majority of black people have no interest in these protests, and did not attend them. Many have zero interest in BLM as a whole. And the majority of those that did attend were peaceful. Largely young people attended, in the midst of their pandemic loose end. The criminal elements unfortunately undermine it all and those are understandably the images we see, remember and associate. I hope those doing damage, and especially harm, serve serious time.

Those black people developing more negative views of whites as result of seeing the George Floyd or other such alarming footage, share obvious parallels with people who watch footage of these protests and develop a growing dislike of blacks based on that. Both are viewing events through a curated lens that tells us very little about the typical person. I would hope that we all know many decent people of various races and are at least able to draw a sense of perspective from those realities too.

Edited by BlueJay (07 Jun 2020 5.42pm)

How many complained of vandalism when Saddam Hussain’s statue was pulled down, or during the Arab uprising? Pretty similar on the Saddam statue.

If you followed it was about a group of blacks knifing a white boy.
It's disgusting but yet once again you go all PC to close debate.
They were bloody savage!!!! Disgusting.

I really hate it when people continually misuse this phrase and deploy it as a method of deflection, or worse, a tool to prevent debating the points made properly. I'm surfacing a fact. Not saying 'It's OK because other people do it'

Now engage your brain

If you followed it was about a group of blacks knifing a white boy.
It's disgusting but yet once again you go all PC to close debate.
They were bloody savage!!!! Disgusting.

Just watched some hapless cop-chief from Bristol on the news saying he made the right decision in not intervening in mob vandalism. Bit like not intervening in mob child-abuse in Rotherham really.