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I’m not the type of person to involve myself in this type of thing or talk about it on social media. But what I saw today I feel like I should address it. My hometown, the place I was born in and have lived in ever since, has been growing a bad reputation and it just got worse.
I’ll be honest, I lean more right than left in politics. But on a topic like this, it can’t go unnoticed. I respect the police, I don’t like cops all that much though. They’re not all bad. But in times like these, I agree something needs to be done by their abuse of power.
The main thing I wanted to talk about was what happened today. Weatherford’s protest of the confederate statue. I heard that this was happening a few days ago and I assumed it’d be a few people on both sides of the argument about the statue. In reality it was much bigger.
I saw several videos of what went on at the square. I don’t want to offend anyone but it seemed like the BLM supporters were the peaceful bunch from what I saw. It was the counter protesters that caused problems. I saw a video of a man punching a BLM supporter in front of a cop
And nothing was done. It shouldn’t be that way, he should’ve been detained. But I don’t know both sides. I’m not trying to create any arguments or anything of that nature. Even though I lean more to the right than the left doesn’t mean I can’t be in the favor of BLM.
Police brutality is real on everyone, the black community does experience it way more than people might realize. I think that something has got to change now when it comes to that. I hate seeing cops get away with crimes that a normal person would get 25+ years for.
I don’t really have many ideas on what needs to happen but something needs to change with police enforcement. It’s been taking way to long and never should have happened to begin with but you can’t fix stupid I guess. All I know is change must come.
And I don’t think the statues should be destroyed, we also don’t need it in the middle of town. Take it to a museum, so we can still learn from the past about what awful things happened and so it won’t happen again. I will say before anything like this ever happened and protests
First started happening a few years ago, I never saw the confederate flag that much, at least around here. Maybe a few trucks had it as a bumper sticker. But recently it’s gone from no confederate flag to I see one every day on the way to work. And I agree that if someone wants
Fly one, go for it, it’s freedom of speech. But just know I will never fly one, own one, or have anything to do with one. I disagree with it. I love my state and I love my town but with things like this happening it’s really hard to even say I’m from here. I never wanted to get
This deep into this topic. But I figured I’d share my point of view. If you disagree or want to talk about it DM me, maybe your opinion will change mine or vice versa. But for now I must say what happened today makes me sad to call this place my home.
To follow up on the video of the man punching the unprovoked BLM supporter. The man actually punched him after a scuffle went down and the BLM supporter hit him out of nowhere when neither were involved. Then again the guy shouldn’t have done it still, idk what caused the scuffle
Either, so I’m not defending a side when it comes to the violence. I just don’t understand why it couldn’t be peaceful from the counter protesters or the BLM movement depending on who caused more problems. I don’t know the stories, so I’m not gonna defend a side as of right now.
I feel like I didn’t end this thread very well but I’d just like to say that as a country and as a people, unity is what I want to see. We are the United States for a reason. I just want to say that if you disagree with anything I said, remember DM me if you want, I don’t want to
Argue though. Just a nice civil conversation about what we think.
