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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people along certain parts of Rockville Pike. Good signs, lots of honking. No issues I saw or heard of.

Why [i]are[/i] the protestors overwhelmingly older (most seemed to be 50+) and white? I did not see many younger protestors (like college aged) along Rockville Pike. We know that age is most prone to protesting so where were they? I hope the college kids who are so hell-bent on protesting Israel and causing mayhem on college campuses would also attend these protests - to protest a cause that has more direct impact on their lives. I just didn't see them along Rockville Pike or other pictures I'm seeing from other protests.

Where were Hispanic people and black people? We know they do protests - why weren't they at this one in large numbers? Hispanics, I understand but why wasn't there a larger amount of black people protesting? Autocracy affects them just as much.
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Blacks have been sitting these protests out for months.

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SOME have, some haven’t. And some of us have protested in other ways.
92% of Black women who voted and 78% of Black men who voted— voted for Harris.  We came out to be counted when it counted — often despite deliberate and even dangerous obstacles in our way.  We’re a numerical minority group.  We can shift things, but 14% is not enough to overthrow the white nationalists and those of you who support them, and the even larger numbers of you who sat things out — until it hit you that you might be impacted personally by your actions as well as by your inactions.

tldr: White people created this mess. It’s on white people to take the lead to end it — if that’s what they really want. We’re focused on survival, and don’t need even bigger targets on our backs while white people wonder why we’re not working hard enough to achieve their current goals.

Autocracy affects us even more. So ask yourself how we got to where we are now. It was not because the Black people who told you about Trump’s lifelong lies, criminal behavior, and racism were listened to respectfully. Start with the Trump family practice of using federal loans to build racially segregated housing in Queens.  Ponder Trump’s inflammatory full page ads that led to the incarceration of 5 Black and Brown young men, and inflamed already tense race relations throughout NYC. 
We told you. Many of you didn’t listen. Now you want us to do things your way?  Nah.  [/quote]

DP.  5 million (or more?) Americans protested yesterday, a majority of them white.  We don't "want you to do things our way".  You don't have to do anything.  But maybe you should.[/quote]

Maybe. But you haven’t given me any reason for your assertions. You also have no idea what I actually did yesterday — just that I “should” have done something else, apparently.

White people are the “majority “ of pretty much everything in this country. So if you all do your bit, that’s what things look like — including protests. It’s math.  Do you have some rigorous sources for your data — or did you just eyeball it and decide to go with that? [/quote]

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