1. Most of those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd have been peaceful.
2. Those who have introduced violence, trying to spark a race war, are largely white supremacists trying to get people like Ramirez to transfer the blame for violence onto those they are trying to frame.
Beyond that, the destruction is understandable, but it is tragic and, sadly, counterproductive. People whose power has been denied them strike out with whatever tools they have
Merchants who served African American communities, providing groceries, household items, personal services and recreation right there in the local neighborhoods, and who had no part in the brutal murder of George Floyd, will now be dissuaded from serving those communities and it will become more difficult for those most in need of those products and services to get them.
Many of those local businesses are minority owned and many small minority-owned businesses will now lose their investments, their careers and everything they put their blood, sweat and tears into over many years.
Ramirez misses on two counts:
1. Most of those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd have been peaceful.
2. Those who have introduced violence, trying to spark a race war, are largely white supremacists trying to get people like Ramirez to transfer the blame for violence onto those they are trying to frame.
Beyond that, the destruction is understandable, but it is tragic and, sadly, counterproductive. People whose power has been denied them strike out with whatever tools they have
Merchants who served African American communities, providing groceries, household items, personal services and recreation right there in the local neighborhoods, and who had no part in the brutal murder of George Floyd, will now be dissuaded from serving those communities and it will become more difficult for those most in need of those products and services to get them.
Many of those local businesses are minority owned and many small minority-owned businesses will now lose their investments, their careers and everything they put their blood, sweat and tears into over many years.