I used to watch old footage from the 60s of African Americans getting hosed down in front of businesses for “peacefully protesting”. I used to see that news media footage thinking “look at all this racism, they weren’t doin nuffin”. Now, I wonder what was really happening and if perhaps the media played a role even then in misrepresentation.

This has also made me 100% recontextualize the Rodney king riots. This BLM shit is so toxic, it’s retroactively making me reconsider similar “protests” that I felt were positive or at least justified.

Is anyone else feeling this way?