I remember, like yesterday, seeing George Floyd's neck being knelt upon last summer.
Shortly after, I saw VIDEO FOOTAGE of a tall, slender man dressed in all-black, wearing a gas mask with (memorable) purple trim. He carried an umbrella in one hand, and a hammer in the other. With the hammer, he knocked out the windows of an Auto Zone. This was The Inciting Event that kicked off the following wave of nationwide riots. It started with the initiation of a police officer.
Things are rarely as they seem.
It all felt very "off" to me. The tactics. The graffiti tags. The assault of historical monuments. It's nuanced and hard to articulate, but the aggressive vandalism just did not feel like something that authentically arose from 'us' (Black people).
I'm not denying our issues and challenges. We have plenty. But, if we're being very honest about things... you know your own dirt. And you know dirt that is not yours. All last year, I saw the essence of BLM's actions as sinister. And Black people are not sinister. But thanks to last year's media, we have been positioned to appear as such.
It felt -- and continues to feel -- like a horrible INFILTRATION and MISIDENTIFICATION that is not easy to untangle. The ugliness was repeatedly signed with "BLM". So the world now accepts and even equates destructive acts carried out by Antifa, as BLM... and to a lesser degree, Black people in general.
Fast-forward to yesterday, January 6th, 2021.
I think a lot of people who identify as a Patriot, MAGA, constitutionalist, or Trumpster might now feel similarly to what I've described above.
It must cause them to wince and cringe to see a global narrative rapidly spin out of control, that leaves them holding the bag for very unpatriotic behavior, as well as the blood of 4 on their hands. To feel in their gut that yesterday's 'riotous mob' is quite CONTRARY to the values they hold dear. To see violent and shameful acts done by IMPOSTERS who were stereotypically DRESSED TO APPEAR as Trump protestors, but were really hired trouble-makers.
I understand the real-time frustration.
The desperate desire to CORRECT THE NARRATIVE that tries to hold you socially responsible for atrocious actions that were carried out by PAID ACTORS, in order to make your group/tribe look like morally-evacuated pieces of 💩.
But public narratives are owned by those with greater reach and control. Isn't it possible that both MAGA + BLM have gotten played by the same MSM devils of perception?? I can't help but wonder what would happen if we stopped throwing blame and accusation at each other, and actually recognized OUR COMMON ENEMY.
The ultimate goal, it seems, is for these infiltrations to provoke and provide evidence of the need for martial law, and increased policing of citizens. Tribal blindness is allowing the Great Resetters to make all the premeditated moves they arrogantly published decades ago!
(This aspirational image comes from a recent Max Igan video.)