These are wild days we're living through, y'all. The imperial boomerang has returned to sender with the postage unpaid. The Golden Rule has been revised to read 'Them that has the gold makes the rules.'
Now do what the masked gunmen say and you get to keep your life. On Wednesday, government goons gunned down Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the whole thing captured on video by multiple people.
The regime seems to have copied their playbook straight out of Orwell, slandering Good as a domestic terrorist, freezing state and local authorities out of the 'investigation' into her death and doubling down on their occupation of Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security even rolled out a new slogan, "One of ours, all of yours," that they lifted straight from the fascists.
Minneapolis responded, taking to the streets in the tens of thousands in protest. Across the country, in communities large and small, people have been protesting and standing in solidarity with Minneapolis as well. Here in Louisville, people took to the streets on Thursday and again on Saturday.
These photos are all from Saturday, when hundreds braved wet and blustery weather to fill the Belvedere downtown for the 'ICE Out For Good' pop up protest, part of a nationwide weekend of protests. One speaker, a teacher, gave the gathered crowd a homework assignment based on the words of Frederick Douglass: Agitate, agitate, agitate!
Renee Good was nowhere near the first person killed by the gun thugs in recent months, but it seems to have taken the death of a white woman to punch through the effects of all the weapons of mass distraction being employed currently. For sure it's brought people out into the streets in a way none of the others did.
The thing is, this isn't really about the color of your skin so much as it is the size of your bank account, as Antonio Brown here pointed out. Good's death just drove home that no one was safe.
In the days since, the regime has doubled down on its threats, both domestically and internationally. There's a sense of fear here that not even 9/11 managed to instill, paired with anger and outrage that is continually building.
There's a Cesar Chavez that keeps springing to mind:
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We're not to that point yet, but the day is coming.