This popped up in my feed today...
So, what do you think...was is color, or attitude (or something else) that contributed to protestors and police mutual respect?
The bright-pink afterglow of the weekend’s massive Women’s March on Washington had barely faded Sunday and thousands of women were still boarding planes and buses home when the critics came out swinging.
No, not President Donald Trump, who did wonder Sunday on Twitter, ‘‘Why didn’t these people vote?’’
The critics were women and men of color.
They saw privilege in the march that allowed hundreds of thousands of women — the overwhelming majority of them white — to march freely, beyond the borders of their permitted route in Washington, filling the streets in Los Angeles, effectively shutting down downtown Chicago, yet never encountering police in riot gear, never having to wipe away pepper spray, never fearing arrest. They saw privilege in the women posing for photos with grinning officers wearing pink ‘‘pussy hats’’ alongside them. High-fiving police, even.
Was the Women’s March just another display of white privilege? Some think so. - The Boston Globe
No, not President Donald Trump, who did wonder Sunday on Twitter, ‘‘Why didn’t these people vote?’’
The critics were women and men of color.
They saw privilege in the march that allowed hundreds of thousands of women — the overwhelming majority of them white — to march freely, beyond the borders of their permitted route in Washington, filling the streets in Los Angeles, effectively shutting down downtown Chicago, yet never encountering police in riot gear, never having to wipe away pepper spray, never fearing arrest. They saw privilege in the women posing for photos with grinning officers wearing pink ‘‘pussy hats’’ alongside them. High-fiving police, even.
Was the Women’s March just another display of white privilege? Some think so. - The Boston Globe