Here we go again.
Dear fellow WHITE PEOPLE: if you're upset that a corporate behemoth that puts money into the surveillance state for the policing (and harm) of Black bodies, suffered property damage/loss, why?
Is it because you can more easily imagine property's value?

Is it because you can imagine yourselves being discomfited by disruption far more easily than you can imagine being harmed by police?
Because if people being murdered or terrorized bothers you less than being inconvenienced or property damage, I wanna know why.

Because we all need to ask ourselves this: How much grace have we been given by Black America (or Black Britain/UK/Canada) for centuries? The fact that we have so much fear of the simple assertion that Black Lives Matter, tells me we know that we have been granted that grace.

But grace has limits. It is not an endless well. That we collectively fear those limits as expressed in acts of self-defense when we see them in protests or property damage, more than we fear the reasons those acts of self-defense occur, says not one good thing about us.

The reason I ask these questions is because when confronted between a conflict between what I've been taught and what I consciously believe, it helps me to ask why, down to the ground. I do this in therapy all the time. I did and still do it when I find those bumps of how racism

Is baked into how I was raised and what we're told in media narratives and education in school, and it helps to unpack the frankly horrifying levels of bullshit that is supposed to make us cogs in the neverending machine of white supremacy. Asking the questions makes me think.

And thinking about how and what and why I think things, even if they cause dissonance with my core beliefs, helps me to stop reacting the way we're trained to because that trained response is horrifying.
So if you find yourselves thinking, "Yes, but," INTERROGATE IT.