itsmehb: Oh my dear it's so good to hear someone speaking the voice of reason. You have touched the very vital topic, I certainly understand your bitterness and honestly cannot agree more... As probably everyone I'm also following the events happening worldwide in the last couple of days and I'm trying to understand what the heck is going on, what the motive is, and where it all leads...
A very unfortunate event happens in the USA, whoever George Floyd was or was not he did not deserve to be brutally murdered, especially by the representative of state authorities. Most definitely the policeman should not get away with it, the charges must be pressed, the trail and prosecution must take place and the prevention against similar situations in the future must be introduced, there's no doubt about it. But why on earth a single murder justifies riots both in America and on the old continent?! I'm absolutely against discrimination and racial bias, and I'm all for what happened in Montgomery on December 1st 1955. Bus boycott and protests were the only reasonable things to do back then, and all black people today still own a lot to Rosa Parks, but getting back to the present, why the protests now? Why a single act of violence by one evil man justifies an enormous load of violence, vandalism, anarchy, destruction and mayhem? This is surprising for me.
Toppling the Edward Colston monument in Bristol? Well... Not quite exactly the way I would like to see it removed, but at least it was more or less logical and reasonable.
But vandalizing Winston Churchill's statue?! Like f*cking for real? This is so much totally out of my understanding. Not only the chap had nothing to do either with black people discrimination, slavery or anything, but most important was he an extremely smart strategist, a talented politician, an excellent speaker, one of the greatest and most renowned leaders of UK and literally a hero of WWII. When being asked whom of the famous people of the history I admire most, Churchill comes to my mind as one of the first, and I'm not even British...
What those people did to him under the pretext of equality saddens me deeply. It isn't even surprising, it is sad and sad only...
For the sake of records - I'm 27, maybe not a teenager anymore, but still can be considered somewhat "young"...