jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agoFor a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down17
arrow-up1216arrow-down1external-linkFor a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.www.usatoday.comjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarehark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·7 months agoThere was an opportunity to change things, in fact there is still plenty of opportunity to change things, but that would upset the current power structure so you’re supposed to be satisfied with this empty gesture instead:
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down3·7 months agoThat’s all they ever give, hollow empty platitudes. The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice. Malcolm X.
There was an opportunity to change things, in fact there is still plenty of opportunity to change things, but that would upset the current power structure so you’re supposed to be satisfied with this empty gesture instead:
That’s all they ever give, hollow empty platitudes.
Malcolm X.