Don’t call it a protest. Call it a coup.
“I guarantee you if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested or dead.” ~ Joy Reid

Photo of the U.S. Capitol building. (CANVA)
Afterward, the Trump-supporting mob entered the Capitol building and began causing chaos. As a result, nearly one hundred Democratic Congress members are calling for Trump’s impeachment, according to NBC News.
Before Trump could finish, the group stormed Capitol Hill, “where they would break through police barricades, rip through the chambers of Congress and vandalize the core symbol of the federal government,” NBC News noted. Interestingly enough, these individuals were not met with the same level of violence that Black Lives Matter protesters faced last summer.
Some police officers were filmed taking selfies, opening barricades and helping Trump supporters down stairs during the siege of the US Capitol. On the same streets months earlier, Black Lives Matter protesters were tear-gassed and shoved out of the way for Trump’s photo op. pic.twitter.com/i3Rw2wJTQD
— SBS News (@SBSNews) January 7, 2021
Some have also noted that police officers were taking selfies with insurrectionists. Yet, when it came to Black Lives Matter protestors, they were scouring social media to identify them, and they were slapping them with felony charges. For example, Jeremey “Mohawk” Johnson, a protestor in Chicago, is accused of throwing a skateboard at a cop.
Meanwhile, the mob at the capital caused 4 deaths, and there were several bombs discovered as well as Molotov cocktails, and one of the rioters was able to do an interview with Fox News. Additionally, they were praised by President Trump, who told them, “We love you.”
Although many have come out to say, “This is not America,” including President-elect Joe Biden, others have argued that this is America, as the country was founded upon violence. From the slave trade to the genocide of indigenous groups, violence is part and parcel to American history.
Yet, revisionists gloss over those parts of American history so that they do not have to reckon with America’s violent past. However, situations like these remind us that we are not post-racial at all.
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As with the lack of police interference during riots, there was hypocrisy coming from the far-right. The only ones who are allowed to express their rights, it seems, are those who agree with their radical, racist views.
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