Protest in Michigan answers a lingering question from the 20th century, do ignorant white cosplayers do have enough sense to come in out of the rain?
One of the more popular images from protests at the Michagan State House seems to support the “storming” of the building by armed white folks.
The “storming” narrative is sweeping social media, driven by people who are soliciting your money, either now or soon. The problem is none, repeat none of the “storming” narratives is true. They are completely and utterly false! NBC captures what happened in a single paragraph:
As the protests moved indoors from the rainy steps of the Capitol, police took the temperatures of those entering the building using forehead thermometers, according to NBC affiliate WOOD of Grand Rapids.
Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan’s emergency measures April 30, 2020 by Dartunorro Clark.
Armed white cosplayers, came in out of the rain in Michigan, after having their temperatures checked by the police. Not my idea of “storming” a state capital. Yours?
PS: Yes, police have reacted with extreme violence against unarmed Black Children (Children’s Crusade, Birmingham, AL May 2-3, 1963) and peaceful Native Americans (Standing Rock, for example, 2016-2017), but not against these armed white people. Your point? Over 500 years, white settlers have practiced and refined racism into the warp and woof of North America. Shaming it for being the society they built, one injustice at a time isn’t a winning strategy.