Milwaukee Independent, October 3, 2020, The Suburban Response To Protesters Masks A Century Of Housing Discrimination In Milwaukee
The article implores the root causes of political brutality, and advocates citizens to take part in dismantling systemic injustices rather than complain about protests. While Milwaukee residents try to quiet the protestors who have advanced social justice, the author uncovers the all white policies these very resident have benefited from at the suffering of the Black community.
For all of the people in suburban communities complaining about the protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd I have a message. Get over it! If you want to be upset about something, be upset about the root causes of the protests instead. Be mad about the constant police brutality that does not seem to change despite the protests. If you want the protests to end, work to force your elected officials to do something more than claim they are in favor of police reform and an end to systemic racism. Stop whining about how much you are being inconvenienced by people marching through your communities.
You’ve had to endure just a little over 100 days of protests, while Black people have been dealing with racism in this country for 401 years. Black people have been inconvenienced the equivalent of four years for each single day you’ve had to deal with protests. Let me repeat this point. Each single day of protests in your communities is the equivalent of four years of anti-Black racism, discrimination, marginalization, murder, mayhem, rapes, kidnappings, lynchings, family separations, captivity, withholding of opportunities, segregation, and general disrespect that we have endured unabated.
