I don't necessarily agree with the rioting and looting but I'm not going to sit here and condemn those out their doing it either...ESPECIALLY when I'm sitting here watching them set the damn play up to let those cops walk free in Minnesota, so another black man killed and the white person(s) that did it just gonna walk again. If you don't see this coming, you're blind as fukk.
I'm from the Westside of Atlanta and went to BTW, the SAME high school school MLK went to and I'm VERY thankful for his service. However, I was sitting back talking with some of my best homies last night (two of which are current officers for APD and are both from the Westside as well) and we all know that peaceful protest shyt is useless. The young people that you saw out there last night know that shyt is useless too and they ain't trying to hear that shyt.
Anybody talking like metro Atlanta today is the same black city as it was 20 years ago is being unreal with themselves. Gentrification has driven black people out from the city who has for years been begging for cleans parks, decent schools, neighborhood shops that aren't liquor stores, a quality place to get groceries, etc.
So while I don't cosign the looting, I damn sure ain't dropping no tears over Lenox Mall, Phipps Plaza, Centennial Park, or any of these other corporations (Target, Starbucks, etc) having to rebuild stores. If they gave a actual fukk about black people like they care about having the almighty black dollar, they would have spoke up long time ago. But they ain't gave a shyt because the dollar still coming to them. And yes, I understand black interest has been/will get caught in the middle of this but no revolution in history has been pretty. NONE.
So fukk it, this is were we are today, people are sick and tired of being unheard, sick and tired of systematic oppression, sick and tired of whites killing blacks with no repercussions. So sick and tired they can't be reasoned with and ain't nobody trying to hear this peaceful protesting while singing "Lift Every Voice" 50 times shyt. So how bout we stop focusing on the effect that's taking place now and start focusing on the causes that's driving it...
BTW, we're on the clock until the next time a cop do some more stupid shyt. Them fukking up Buckhead should put folks on notice that the longer you stay silent, the closer the ruckus is going to get to your door.