White silence equals violence. That was one of the signs that really stood out to me at Sunday's protest in front of police headquarters in Billings, Montana. Well, if "white silence equals violence" then maybe it is time for us to have real conversations about who controls these citi…
It is the rioters themselves who now have their knees on the necks of innocent black business owners. Now an innocent black man was murdered in Oakland, because of the color of his uniform. These rioters aren't seeking justice they're seeing to destroy this country.
"You are doing exactly what you are accusing them of doing, you are judging them by their color, of their uniform, and stereotyping them by what you see in the news from other places."
Minnesota’s Multi-Agency Command Center has released a report on the on-going rioting, saying they have identified evidence of outside threats to the Twin Cities.
The Minnesota State Patrol arrested a CNN television crew as they reported on violent protests in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck.
If you're like me, and you watched the horrific video of the death of George Floyd, the black man who was killed after a police officer held his knee to Floyd's neck for nearly 8 minutes, you struggled with finding the right words to respond.
Since I moved to town and discovered that Billings is called the Magic City, I have wondered what is behind that name. I can sit back and name a few things that I think make this name an appropriate one but what does Google say? A friend of mine told me to go incognito on Google and search this...