I took a break from my phone pretty much since Quarantine & the current matters in our nation made me break my silence. Common sense: the looting is obviously NOT a part of the agenda in the peaceful protests intended by #BLM movements, so watch out for those maliciously trying to incite violence. It's a framed ploy to give the law and "reason to respond". Be careful of which news & social media outlets you observe or follow - they will only show a small scope of what is really going on compared to the bigger truth that reveals how cops are responding with violence. If their narrative seems a little too much like PR for cops, it's a bias narrative. Try being at the protests or actually getting real footage from real people who were there. We can't even really trust our government at this point until we see some genuinely good cops taking out the trash, because if they really do fight crime, then persecuting their follow officers who are wicked should not be an exception and deserves just as much fervor. A week of protests is not something to frown upon; but perhaps centuries of slavery & oppression that should've illicited a massive response long ago. Racism & oppression didn't end after the Civil Rights movement; it simply just took new, latent forms What we are witnessing & hopefully being a part of is our nation being destroyed so it can be reborn into something more humane. RIP to ALL the innocent lives taken by the people who were supposed to be sworn to protect & serve them. Justice won't bring them back and it's messed up AF, but I hope it does right for the ones you had to leave behind. #blacklivesmatter #blackoutday2020 #icantbreathe #georgefloyd #nojusticenopeace #enoughisenough #timeforchange #outwiththeoldinwiththenew #civilrights (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7JGSXHms1/?igshid=1a7tfeus4ffug