Bren Kelly
1 min readJan 7, 2025

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What would have happened if the J6 rioters were black? We already know the answer. The BLM protests say violence, though 99 percent of the time they were peaceful, with some estimates as high as 22-25 million people marching in the biggest protest in American history. Of the violence that did occur between the overly-militarized riot police and the protestors, the police in one report were found to have instigated the violence in more than 51 percent of the cases, with some numbers higher. Thus we know that black J6 rioters would have been met by very heavy-handed riot squads and beaten down before they would have walked a step toward the capitol. Instead, no police showed up. It’s a tale of two countries. One concentrated protest that turned violent involving a small group of armed people was poured over in endless attention and made a deep impact on politics, while the other one that was overwhelmingly peaceful, massive in numbers, and spread out across the whole nation made little impact and only a handful of gestures in police reform were made, with no defunding but the opposite.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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