Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who then died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries.
[For example,] peaceful protesters highlighted allegations of abuse of black prisoners by their jailers, social and economic inequality, and institutional racism lingering from the colonial pasts of the Netherlands, Britain and France.
(Reuters, June 4, 2020)
Organizers say this twelfth-consecutive day of protests following that killing will see the largest gatherings yet.
Over 100,000 protesters are scheduled to make Trump’s day in Washington, DC.
But the question remains: then what?
In the meantime, no matter what self-righteous BML activists tweet, nobody has one-upped Trump in the game of political trolling quite like this:
City workers and activists painted the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visible sign of the District of Columbia’s embrace of a protest movement that has put it at odds with President Donald Trump.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser tweeted aerial video of the mural shortly after it was completed Friday. The letters and an image of the city’s flag stretch across 16th Street for two blocks, ending just before the church where Trump staged a photo-op after federal officers forcibly cleared a peaceful demonstration to make way for the president and his entourage.
(The Associated Press, June 5, 2020)
Boom! Drops the mic.
Like Nancy Pelosi, leave it to another woman to put this diaper-wearing, orange balloon of a man in his place.
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