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Blue Lives Matter not focused on protecting the police
The events that transpired at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 horrified the nation, yet felt remarkably unsurprising. Photos of the event show a sea of red caps and Trump propaganda, along with a handful of Blue Lives Matter flags. The most ironic photo shows a man holding a Blue Lives Matter flag duct taped to a wooden pole in one hand and shoving a Capitol police officer with the other. A crowd of rioters carrying thin blue line flags was responsible for the death of one Capitol police officer and another 140 injured. The Jan. 6 insurrection reaffirms that perhaps Blue Lives Matter does not necessarily stand for police officers as much as it stands against the Black community.
The Hateful vs. The Kind Fri Feb 5, 2021 A very big family in a very small house: my childhood home. The youngest of six, fights terrified me. Four older brothers, all over six feet, athletes, hunters, trappers, and archers. When the borscht hit the fan, crimson spattered the walls. Smaller and softer than they, less angry, eager to please, I shuddered. What sparked these swift, hard fists, these over-the-top curses? We had food, shelter, chicken on Sunday, school, church, friends, movies; life was good. I was just a lump of dough, praying for quiet to return. I m feeling the same fear again, of witnessing irrational hostility and fraternal violence, the despair that I am a bystander who has no power to influence events that terrify and depress me.