[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Bikeracer2009

If you really want to know why statues with no ties to racism are being destroyed.

The simple answer is to take away your heroes.

Training young people to advance your cause is important to transformational change. A company called Momentum can train your staff to increase it's collective power and shift the terrain under policymakers feet.

Momentum Community dot org is their website.

Escalation training to force the question which side are you on?

Active popular support. When people are activated, and refuse to cooperate with justice in massive numbers, they win.

Absorption. Scale up the movement.

Recent clients, BLM, Dream and Occupy Wall Street.

Another organization to look at is the Sunrise Movement.

I'm not saying they are apart of the blm but some people say they are. A video on YouTube put together by "Planet Humans" claims they are and the video is convincing to me. I have not researched the channel/group or the information they claim.

The title of their video is "Undercover Investigation - Minneapolis Riots Was Planned"

Another video to watch if you're interested is from Joe Rogan. The video is Joe Rogan Experience #1494 Bret Weinstein.

I do support the ideals of blm but not the violence etc.

It sounds like you're interested in educating yourself.

If that means you're actually open to ALL forms of education, and hopefully not just that which satisfies confirmation bias, I strongly encourage you to watch this award winning documentary on NETFLIX called...

13TH (Click Here)

13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;"[3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.

DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States.

She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.

13th garnered acclaim from a number of film critics.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Then I would respectfully ask that you come come back and try to say, that you didn't learn a whole lot from it...or even that some of your views haven't changed.

Thank you.