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In Reply to: Kind of strange all this hand-wringing about really meaningless things, isn't it? What impacts Americans more, posted by tinear on June 29, 2020 at 08:12:48:
Otherwise, they wouldn't be targets of the protest movement. It seems to me that both sides are getting all worked up over symbols more than substance.
I get that black people are frustrated and angry because they're still on the losing end of systemic inequality. Improvement has been coming at a snail's pace in some places and not at all in other places. But most of the energy expended in this protest movement has been directed at symbols and tokens. So guess what I'm expecting we'll get? Symbolic change and token gestures.
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- Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave_K 06/29/2011:36:26 06/29/20 (10)
- "all worked up over symbols more than substance"... - dark_dave56 02:35:40 06/30/20 (0)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 16:34:04 06/29/20 (5)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 17:50:59 06/29/20 (4)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 18:17:59 06/29/20 (3)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 18:36:56 06/29/20 (2)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 18:54:17 06/29/20 (1)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 19:23:11 06/29/20 (0)
- RE: try accountability and hard work ... - deathtube 667 12:29:51 06/29/20 (2)
- RE: try accountability and hard work ... - rivervalley817 12:38:53 06/29/20 (1)
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