by Max Budgen
Unless you have been living under a rock you will have noticed the Black Lives Matter protests that have been adding to the existing chaos of 2020. In this article I will express my opinions on this.
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The first thing that I need to say is that it is not Black Lives Matter or White Lives Matter. Instead, if we protest it must be for all lives - or else we will be stuck in a never-ending cycle of one-race dominance.
One of the next steps we have to take is silent protesting instead of violence and vandalism, which I highly disagree with. Why vandalise a statue of Winston Churchill who got us through the Second World War? Yes, he expressed what now would be seen as white supremacist views but that was not atypical of the early twentieth century.
Imagine in the future there is a law that makes driving your car illegal. Would you want people in the future to frown upon you because you broke a law that wasn't there at the time but was only introduced many decades later?
One of the next steps we have to take is silent protesting instead of violence and vandalism, which I highly disagree with. Why vandalise a statue of Winston Churchill who got us through the Second World War? Yes, he expressed what now would be seen as white supremacist views but that was not atypical of the early twentieth century.
Imagine in the future there is a law that makes driving your car illegal. Would you want people in the future to frown upon you because you broke a law that wasn't there at the time but was only introduced many decades later?
To conclude: all lives matter and, if you protest, do it silently. Also, I, like millions of others, disagree with George Floyd's death.
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