This is a really good sign for positive change – some black leaders and other Democrats are calling out the extremists of Antifa and other anarchist groups for hijacking peaceful protests and making them riots:
I refuse to allow a bunch of ANTIFA affiliated thugs to come to my beloved city of Atlanta and burn it to the ground, under the guise of #BlackLivesMatter.
They don’t give a damn about black lives. They only care about DESTRUCTION.
— Vernon Jones (@RepVernonJones) May 30, 2020
Thats’s a DEMOCRAT state rep. from Georgia!
And look at this thread with many examples of extremist liberal white kids being confronted by peaceful black protesters:
After failing to appropriate the Black People's Party, entitled white kids appropriated our fight yesterday, and made it dirty.
Then they left us to deal with the police violence they stoked.
Listen to the Black Woman desperately begging them to stop.pic.twitter.com/uYaVS4QKQr
— Selena Adera (@Selena_Adera) May 30, 2020
“Entitled white kids appropriated our fight…”
2/Across the country, white privileged kids were caught on camera starting violent riot behavior in the midst of organized Black protests.
When we tried to stop them, their buds falsely accused us of assault, stoking further police violence against us.pic.twitter.com/zWH64DUc2U
— Selena Adera (@Selena_Adera) May 30, 2020
“White privileged kids were caught on camera starting violent riot behavior in the midst of organized Black protests.”
3/Everywhere you look, white entitled privilege was cosplaying as violent resistance, then as always, leaving us to deal with the resulting violence and deaths.
Because our Black Lives never mattered to them.pic.twitter.com/EzCFonBRN0
— Selena Adera (@Selena_Adera) May 30, 2020
We often speak of the Horseshoe Theory.
Up to now, it's been more about extreme ideological purity that moves so much Left that it tenderly embraces the Right.
But what if those extremes always had a deal to destroy us. to have us vilified, then killed.pic.twitter.com/bmC4VEGMRV
— Selena Adera (@Selena_Adera) May 30, 2020
In Minnesota:
The Black community in MN is calling out white Antifa members for starting the riots and destroying their communities. I keep telling y’all these white liberals are not our friends. #Democrats #GeorgeFloyd #minneapolis pic.twitter.com/bmdT6uHfUc
— Angela Stanton King 🇺🇸 (@theangiestanton) May 29, 2020
Many leaders are noticing their protesters arrested are agitators from out of state:
Remarkable info coming out of this presser: Gov. Tim Walls, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and now MN attorney general Keith Ellison ALL alleging outside forces, domestic and possibly foreign, have post-Tuesday infiltrated the state, and are
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) May 30, 2020
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz:
Walz gets specific: estimates 80 percent of those arrested are not from Minnesota. Will release names of those arrested.
— Catharine Richert (@CatRichert) May 30, 2020
There’s also a weird effort to blame white supremacy for these extremists – I think maybe some of that is true, but most of it is gonna be liberal left-wing actors like Antifa:
We have to recognize that white supremacists are probably the most serious terroristic threat to our country. https://t.co/ysWLUgEkDN
— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) May 30, 2020
I wanted to reframe the tweets to distinguish between what is happening on the Internet as opposed to the streets. Marc Morial has stated that he wants to confirm whether "white supremacists" and "Russians" are behind the violence. As I stated, it is likely … pic.twitter.com/JCSb19CePt
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 30, 2020
Turley concludes that is unlikely.
I think this is a good sign because Democrats and some black activists are beginning to recognize that Antifa and other left-wing agitators are a threat to them and their neighborhoods and their businesses. Meanwhile, many of us on the right agree with there was injustice done to George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. The riots and violence are terrible, but maybe in a small way, Americans are drawing closer to each other.
[H/T to @NeonTaster and @JessicaHeddings for elements in this post.]