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Enough of the empty accolades for the protesters. Don’t pretend you are in agreement with their cause. Your actions, while in power to make real change, demonstrate otherwise. The correct response on your part is not to insult the community with feigned emotion, your responsibility was to prevent this from happening. You have all failed miserably.<ref>https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/04/letters-you-own-this-minneapolis-and-minnesota-democrats/</ref>}}
Enough of the empty accolades for the protesters. Don’t pretend you are in agreement with their cause. Your actions, while in power to make real change, demonstrate otherwise. The correct response on your part is not to insult the community with feigned emotion, your responsibility was to prevent this from happening. You have all failed miserably.<ref>https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/04/letters-you-own-this-minneapolis-and-minnesota-democrats/</ref>}}
==A Black woman's observations==
A Black woman posted an observation on [[social media]]:
{{quotebox|Two weeks ago you were unable to have a funeral. If your mom, if your dad, if your grandma died, they couldn't have a funeral. And if you did try to have a funeral you could have been arrested you. Fast forward two weeks later. You turn on the television and there's a giant funeral, a giant memorial for George Floyd. Celebrities and politicians all there - the same people for the past couple months who are telling you if you were to go into a group of people, you could have died because of [[Covid 19]]. And here they sit at this giant funeral, a funeral in which George Floyd probably only knew one-third of the people actually there. A funeral in which became political. [[ Al Sharpton]] was up there saying 'we're gonna take the [[White House]].'
George Floyd's funeral became political. Two to three days after that man was murdered they told you to go [[vote]]. A week after that man was murdered, first day of primaries, and what did you do? You went out and voted. Blue Blue Blue Blue, just like the script told you to. Vote Vote Vote Vote all over [[Instagram]], all over [[Twitter]]. Everybody Vote Vote Vote Vote. Why?
Have you asked yourself why? What is voting gonna do? We had a black president and this still happened. You think voting is gonna solve racism? You're being used. You think they broadcasted George Floyd's funeral all to america because they wanted to show what a great person George Floyd was, or do you think they broadcasted George Floyd's funeral because they wanted you to watch so you would get angry, you would get sad you would get mad, you would get frustrated. and you would go vote.
And you're falling for it, because you're literally saying 'everybody go vote', and you're not seeing the bigger picture.
This is exactly what they want you to do. The [[Democrat]]s were about to lose the [[Black]] vote. And a party with no black vote is no Democrat party at all. And so you're gonna tell me you don't think they'll do whatever they want to, whatever they can, to make sure they secure that black vote, even if that means using you, using me, using George Floyd? You're gonna sit here and tell me, 'hashtag black lives matter? No they care about black people'. Do they, or do black lives matter only when they need your vote?
Ask yourself that question.<ref>https://youtu.be/VbeN0XbClNc</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==