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Sunday, May 31, 2020

An Attitude of Platitude



Today, May 31 2020, after nights of riots by people infuriated over the continued killings, lynchings, of black men and women by police and others, Google modified their search screen like this:
That small tag line at the bottom reads:
Kum-by-fucking-ya.

We're not talking about fucking "racial equality" here, although wouldn't that be nice; we're talking about men and women being murdered for performing acts like driving, or jogging, or just breathing, sometimes for just sitting peacefully in their own homes. Murdered in the streets. Murdered in their homes. Murdered frequently by the people whom, through their tax dollars, they are paying to protect them, the police.

I am not black. If I am outraged by what is happening, what has happened and what is continuing to happen, in this country, I can only imagine the pent up fury of what it means to be a black American.

I can tell you one things though, corporate platitudes don't move the ball an inch.