Let’s keep it a buck...

if Black people were out violating government orders for social distancing, packing out churches, crowding state capitals by the thousands, carrying AR 15 rifles and toting incendiary signs...

police would be in riot gear, using force and violence...
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Tear gas would be flying, rubber and real bullets would be utilized, thousands of arrest would be made and news coverage...

... news coverage would be quite different as they would dig into the past of protesters who were victimized by police violence to give cops cover...
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And the response from White America?

Protesters would be labeled unpatriotic, ungrateful, thugs, and hoodlums.

There would be cries from the White House to the outhouse that, if black people don’t like it here, they should leave.

But, the protesters are white, so...
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