@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 1 year agoFor a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1224
arrow-up1224external-linkFor a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.www.usatoday.com@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•1 year 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•1 year 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.