Black lives matter. If you are the person who continues to focus only on the riots and the “violent” aspect and proceed to undermine the movement because of it, YOU are the problem. You choose to ignore the numerous peaceful protests. You choose to ignore that it is the police who start the violence with rubber bullets and tear gas. You choose to ignore how the police are trapping the protestors, preventing them from leaving, so that they can arrest them after curfew. You choose to ignore how a number of black people, black children, are dying and going missing after every protest. You choose to ignore how most of the looters and people breaking the property of small businesses are ppl doing it for fun, white supremacists trying to make the good protestors look bad, and thieves. You choose to ignore how it is the protestors cleaning up after the looters and also trying to prevent them from break stuff. You choose to ignore how the property of big businesses and road stuff that get damaged, are replaceable, while black lives are not. You choose to ignore how riots and peaceful protest have brought social/political change for centuries: Malcolm X, MLK, the entire French Revolution, the Boston Tea Party/American Revolution, the Hong Kong protests, and countless more. Yet when black people do it, it’s disgusting and shameful. All they ask for is the chance to live in America unafraid, and if the police’s response is rubber bullets and tear gas, that speaks volume to the corrupt government and police system, the racism that “America the Great” has never let go of. ✊✊✊✊✊ ❤️