“Don’t think marches matter? Think blocking traffic to protest injustice is wrong? Think the world isn’t watching?”
—Erik Hanson
“[This] protest is to show the same daily inconveniences that happen to blacks (specifically blacks) everyday. They do not have the privilege of taking another route to work, school, daycare. They have to live with police pulling them over and causing an inconvenience to their lives everyday.”
—Laura Marie Anthony
“You’re right. An unarmed black man getting shot 20 times in his own backyard is stupid. The police that MURDERED him being put on paid leave is stupid as fuck. You coming on this post to try and shame people standing up for justice is stupid. It’s a freeway. People will be a little late home. Stephon Clark is never coming home. You’re a mother. Shame on you.”
—Andru Defeye
“The protesters that took to the streets and shut the freeway down have far more in common with our founding fathers that you claim to love so much than you jerking off other fat dads at the shooting range up in Roseville do.
(Side note: it’s not fat shaming when coupled with the word ‘Dad’ and placed in the context of a shooting range with other right wing suburbanites. It’s a specific archetype where all the details buttress what a pathetic creature he is.)”
—Jason Malmberg
“I better not see any Martin Luther King Jr quotes on the timelines of people complaining about the protest. I swear.”
—Sarah Marie Hawkins
Again, been saying for the 14 years I’ve lived here: The Sacramento region has a lot of racist, bigoted, good old boy with a gun to stick it to everyone, tea party gone worse assholes that are the complete opposite of what California and what used to be America stands for. I’ve seen examples of it for years, and ever since the Russian takeover of our country, it’s gotten even worse because of the racist puppet they have pretending to be in charge.
Reading the reactions and comments about the #stephonclark murder just cement that fact over and over again. Yes, we have our civic-minded, regular people with common sense and decency in this region, but it’s not like this is the San Francisco Bay Area or anything like that. People need to drop that misconception immediately, because that’s not what this Inland part of California is.
This is Trump country. This is racist and bigot country.
And Sacramento, you’re letting your racist colors shine right now. And I couldn’t be more disgusted or disappointed. It’s just sad that this doesn’t surprise me at all.
—kimberly a. morales
Flommist Kimberly A. Morales is a food and wellness blogger, and patron saint of cats. Copyright © 2018 Kimberly A. Morales. Names in comments were not blocked because these examples were originally posted and reposted publically, source. Some of the above quotes were in response to similar postings on Facebook and other message boards.
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