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Sometimes I question if people actually think before they do things. Today in Minneapolis, protesters decided it would be a great idea to stand in the middle of the highway to "protest". Around 8pm a warning was given stating that anyone who did not leave would be arrested. Arrests then began around 9pm. However, enough remained to keep traffic blocked.

*sigh*
This is not protesting, it does not make people want to follow your movement. By blocking a MAJOR HIGHWAY you inconvenience so many people and they don't even THINK about what your movement is about; they think you're a complete moron. Even after receiving a stern warning, people decided that it was worth being arrested for. A protest should be peaceful and should not disturb any aspect of a functioning society.
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When people do shit like this is honestly hurts the cause.. It gives off an extreme vibe that turns people off. Its like veganism, if someone is YELLING and blocking people from continuing on with their day no one would become vegans.

I saw a vid about the same thing BLM protest blocking a highway about a month ago give or take and a driver actually BROKE through the crowd NOT harming anyone and the comment section literally gave me a headache.. Everyone was saying that the driver was racist and Im just sitting here like ???? Mmmmmm nooo that person was trying to go to freaking work -_____-

In short this is not a protest, the people on the highway had nothing to do with police killings etc. All that does is make he movement look bad
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I mean, it does make sense what they are doing. Stuff like this isn't really about getting people to join the movement. It is about shutting down the roads, the city, to try and force people to listen and to force change. I'm not even sure if I am for or against that type of protesting, but I understand it.
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This isn't the first time a major highway has been shutdown in the twin cities areas due to protests, and it's not looking like it will be the last. All what they have done is piss off all the people trying to get home when they have done nothing wrong.

I live near the area, and 94 is a major highway into and out of the city. They really messed up the flow of traffic from what friends told me who were stuck in the traffic jam.
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This crap pisses me off TBH. How do black people protest? They shut down highways and screw up their own town. How do white people protest? We generally don't shut crap down, but do it the right way, go threw congress and law to actually get stuff done instead of screwing everything up.
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002 wrote This crap pisses me off TBH. How do black people protest? They shut down highways and screw up their own town. How do white people protest? We generally don't shut crap down, but do it the right way, go threw congress and law to actually get stuff done instead of screwing everything up.
I'll partially agree with you on that 002. A lot of protest are done correctly, for example. I seen a story or a meme or whatever a while back. It compared the protesting of the incident of Ferguson to the protest of a biker gang. One had violence, one did not. I'm not exactly sure about this, but biker gangs have some bad rep, yet they were the ones who protested peacefully.

As for the BLM movement, that's the racist part. That of which is not of my words but rather of an African American in the US military.
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They've gone from boycotting the public transport - which worked - to stopping the public transport all together.
I remember a while back a group of protesters [I forget the cause] blocked an ambulance from getting to a hospital. That was insane.

At least they aren't as bad as the Christian extremists who bomb abortion clinics and attack abortion doctors.
That is a much more extreme form of protest, but it doesn't seem to get as much recognition by the media.

Also this;



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Yin wrote It is about shutting down the roads, the city, to try and force people to listen and to force change. .


Greetings..
For change to happen both sides need to want it so much that they are willing to drop the colour code !.
For starters the protesters need to drop the word black from their posters.
If it's equality that they are after then surely their posters should read ALL LIVES MATTER !.

Until both sides are ready to drop the Black or white banner nothing will change.
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I understand their movement, but frankly they're just getting everyone mad.
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Beowulf wrote
Yin wrote It is about shutting down the roads, the city, to try and force people to listen and to force change. .


Greetings..
For change to happen both sides need to want it so much that they are willing to drop the colour code !.
For starters the protesters need to drop the word black from their posters.
If it's equality that they are after then surely their posters should read ALL LIVES MATTER !.

Until both sides are ready to drop the Black or white banner nothing will change.

Or, they can just be an inconvenience for a while, and the city will either have to cave into the demands or lose money (assuming the protests get big enough.) Also, they don't need to remove "black" from their motto. It is fine and is how it should be. All houses matter, but we aren't concerned about that when one is on fire. We focus on the burning one. Black lives matter, because black lives matter, too.
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