Is this racist?

[HairOfTheDog]

I firmly believe had those men been black and threatened the authorities that LEO never would have stood for that. They would have taken some kind of action and not cared a wit about any black lives lost.

You might be right.

But, I think Cutz makes a good point. The same LEOs might not differentiate between how they treat criminal protesters of different races under the same circumstances today.

I don't know. I think black activists may have been effective enough in recent years to make LEOs stop and think before they took unnecessary lethal action, either because LEOs care more about black lives now, or because LEOs just know they wouldn't get away with caring less.

I doubt that LEOs would let a black community burn in flames today, just to evict a few criminal protesters, like they did in Philly back in the 80s.

There's a lot of negative associated with activism/protests, media, social media and such...........I think there are also some very positive impacts that are often overlooked.