Where is the outrage ?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Personal experience...
with the demonstrations:
Yesterday, a demonstration was held, referencing the current outrage(s), in the modest-sized suburban community in which I reside. We were notified by City Hall via a phone recording by our mayor, Thursday, that such a protest would be conducted with civil approval, and that it would begin at City Hall itself, at 5:30pm and proceed down a main drag, across town, and across a bridge and into a neighboring community.

As I sat on my deck, which faces the general direction of City Hall, messing with word puzzles, as part of the day's recreation, I realized 5:30 was fast approaching, and I asked myself if there were something I should do? Get involved? Watch?

Then, it hit me, the demonstrators would be taking a path directly across the front of our church, which was possessed of three 6'+ statues in-front, within the front yard area. The question began to present and re-present itself to me about whether the demonstration participants might get statue-toppling-happy, as in other communities, seen on the News, and decide to lasso one or all of our statues to topple them to the ground.

Should I just continue to sit on my deck and wait to hear on the News what had happened during the march? Or should I invest myself in the proceedings? What do you think I did?

You are right.

I quickly changed clothes, which took a little time, and walked as fast as I could the 1mi+ to the church, which took me past the crowd as it gathered at City Hall, and down the street they would be traversing.

As I positioned myself in the church's front yard, among the three main statues, our Pastor arrived at the same spot, saying he was not surprised to see me there, which much surprised me. We stood and waited. I told him I was prepared to invest my whole self in keeping anybody who might approach a statue to do harm, that they would have to go through me.

When the protestors arrived, which was a group approximately a half-mile in length, several took notice of us standing by the statues, and a couple even waved Hello.

I stayed there the whole approx. 3/4hr it took to have the last protestor walk past the church, as they were all on their way downhill toward the next community they intended to enter with their protest-march.

Then, I left and walked homeward, content with myself. I think I had learned a bit more about myself thru that effort and intention.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I quickly changed clothes, which took a little time, and walked as fast as I could the 1mi+ to the church, which took me past the crowd as it gathered at City Hall, and down the street they would be traversing.

And the rest of the story...................................

[Neil]

Fortunately you did not have a statue of Stonewall Jackson or John Calhoun in front of your church . I don't think the Black Lives Matter movement has any ill feelings towards the Virgin Mary or Jesus. Nice Jewish people who would be joining the BLM if they were around, I'd guess.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I don't think the Black Lives Matter movement has any ill feelings towards the Virgin Mary or Jesus. Nice Jewish people who would be joining the BLM if they were around, I'd guess.

Probably so.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Fortunately you did not have a statue of Stonewall Jackson or John Calhoun in front of your church . I don't think the Black Lives Matter movement has any ill feelings towards the Virgin Mary or Jesus...

Yes, Neil, of course, I understood all that before I left the house. But ya never know how every member of such a group might be thinking, or not thinking> I just saw no reason to take the chance. And I surely did not want to have done nothing, only to find out in the News afterward that damage had been done. So I invested myself. I got involved .

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I don't think the Black Lives Matter movement has any ill feelings towards the Virgin Mary or Jesus. Nice Jewish people who would be joining the BLM if they were around, I'd guess.

Probably so.

...except that sometimes not every protestor takes the time to refine all that out, and just could have had the statues register as statues, thus needing to fall.

[HONDO74]

Fortunately you did not have a statue of Stonewall Jackson or John Calhoun in front of your church . I don't think the Black Lives Matter movement has any ill feelings towards the Virgin Mary or Jesus. Nice Jewish people who would be joining the BLM if they were around, I'd guess.

Louis Farrakhan
Farrakhan blames Jews for the slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping and general black oppression. Farrakhan’s tone grew more belligerent in June 2010, when he sent letters to several leaders of the Jewish community as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that they acknowledge the evils they have perpetrated and that they work to further Farrakhan’s goals. The letter ended with a threat to “ruin and destroy your power and influence here and throughout the world” if his terms were not met.
In his own words

“The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters. … The Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress."
­–Louis Farrakhan, Saviours’ Day speech, Chicago, Feb. 25, 1990

[Neil]

Louis Farrakhan hardly represents any movements other than fascism and lunacy . He's not representative of the Black Lives Matter movement unless they accept Black Nazis for membership. He's an appalling footnote to history, much like George Wallace or the Weather Underground. Evil nitwits all.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Invoking Farrakan as anything representative other than a fascist extremist is akin to a drowning man clutching a paper straw; should have been locked in a cell with Jesse Helms.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Invoking Farrakan as anything representative other than a fascist extremist is akin to a drowning man clutching a paper straw; should have been locked in a cell with Jesse Helms.

You must really dislike Jesse Helms.