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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd then there's this little tidbit.
Had the insurrectionists been black or Hispanic in majority on Jan. 6th., I have little doubt that 1) they would have been massacred by the National Guard on the steps, and 2) there would already have been riots in the streets.
On the other hand, I am relieved as to how many of the deplorables (thank you Hillary) have been rounded up and incarcerated, but I also believe that the scenario would have been significantly different had the rioters been colored.
FalloutShelter
(11,879 posts)LearnedHand
(3,394 posts)Um, no?
Think. Again.
(8,453 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)BigMin28
(1,181 posts)Anyone that was arrested instead would have received a years long sentence. Not months.
Garland would have started much, much earlier.
sage
TSExile
(2,487 posts)...if those had been BLM, pride or trans flags. There would not have been any of them left. This is the party of violence and hate.
Think. Again.
(8,453 posts)...but this seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone that we can practice our (true) patriotism by looking over the photographs in the link below and reporting any of the insurrectionists we might recognize;
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence-images
sagetea
(1,375 posts)at that website. And I dearly wish I knew at least one of them! But, alas...
sage
1WorldHope
(695 posts)These pics should be in every newspaper in the country.