Not only has he derided “looters and lowlifes,” but he has also threatened the full force of federal law enforcement to threaten people’s legal right to protest.
There are documented cases of economically envious looting Black communities (Wilmington, Tulsa, Rosewood) because of economic envy, plundering our homes, and then using the power of the majority media to turn a Massacre into a “riot.”
Why don’t you think about the fire that ran people out of Greenwood, the broken windows that destroyed Black presses, the looting that has stolen Black wealth?
Many of the so-called “looters and lowlifes” are descended of enslaved people who have had enough.
I stand with the looters and lowlifes, the people who, in the shadow of the poet Langston Hughes, ask, “What happened to a dream deferred.”
