Remember when Freddie Gray sustained injuries in police custody which lead to his death? Protesting in Baltimore led to unrest and a CVS somehow became the victim of the story in some (White) circles. More recently, there has been unrest in several cities following each new killing of unarmed Black people by police. Some (White) people like to say scary things about the that kind of violence. It gives the impression that the people being killed do not matter nearly as much as the property being destroyed. If an entire group of people are being repeatedly shown that their lives do not matter, well, it begs for an organization to stand up and assert that Black lives do in fact matter.

Recently, a bunch of Trump supporters launched an assault on the United States Capital. I don’t know for certain but, if I had to bet, I’d say that some of them were pre-planned and highly organized on a mission to seize the electoral ballots and coerce or kill members of congress until they were able to temporarily re-install Trump to the office of President and force a new election. I would also bet that a good portion of them got excited and said, “Hold my beer” and stormed the capitol.

I’ve read countless people trying to compare the two types of unrest. Pointing out the “hypocrisy of the libs” in in “supporting BLM/Antifa riots” while also calling the capitol insurrection what it is, terrorism. I know nobody will read this but, I just have to put it out there… Black people are really being killed by police, there are actual, physical, dead bodies to prove it. There are documented comments all over social media valuing property more than their lives. You can go to the funerals if you don’t believe it. You can read the comments and posts if you don’t believe it. NOBODY STOLE THE ELECTION! Every piece of real, tangible, verifiable evidence, every state election official (regardless of party), every judge, even the Republicans that played games by challenging the votes to launch a feel-good commission while never actually saying that fraud occurred, ALL OF THEM know that Trump lost. Why anyone would choose to believe Trump like he’s some kind of prophet despite literally being unable to substantiate any of the claims in the real world is beyond me.

So, comparing protests over the extrajudicial killings of Black people to a tantrum over losing an election is ridiculous in the first place. Comparing unrest that leads to property damage to an unjustified insurrection that leads to bodies is the epitome of logical fallacy. The only thing they both have in common is in Kenosha, a right-wing zealot killed people and at The Capitol, right-wing zealots killed people. You can watch video of a Capitol rioter beating a police officer with a United States Flag! If that crowd was full of honest folks, tell me why they didn’t immediately rip the flag from that man’s hands and get help for the officer? He’s lucky it wasn’t a Blue Lives Matter flag or that would have been some real hypocrisy.