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| It's not that black lives don't matter to the Family Research Council. It's just that black lives don't matter if they can't be used for fundraising and scaring FRC's predominantly white audience. |
Earlier this week, Rep. Maxine Waters gave a speech in Minnesota as people awaited the verdict of the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. After the speech, she addressed reporters' questions and caused a firestorm:
She emphasized that “We’re looking for a guilty verdict … for murder,” referring to the trial of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in May. . . . The case went to the jury Monday. At one point, she was asked what she thought protesters should do if the jury did not find Chauvin guilty of the murder charge. It’s unclear if she heard the entire context of the question, so part of it was repeated: “What should protesters do?”This is the controversial part.Here’s how she responded: “Well, we’ve got to stay on the street. And we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.”
Conservatives, such as Newt Gingrich and Tucker Carlson, claimed that she was encouraging protestors to riot. Her comments also caused some concern trolling from people like pundit Don Lemon. And then the Family Research Council and Perkins had to put their two cents in:
Apparently, today's liberals don't just start riots in their own cities -- they'll travel halfway across the country to start one in yours. Of course, the woman they call "Kerosene Waters" has been starting fires for years, but in Minneapolis, the situation is different. The entire city is hanging on by a thread. Thanks to the perfect storm of the Derek Chauvin trial and the shooting of Daunte Wright, a community that's been on edge for days is one court verdict away from a full-scale firestorm. The last thing anyone there needs is an excuse to turn the city into another pile of smoldering ash. And yet, this congresswoman certainly seemed determined to give them one."We've got to stay on the street, and we've got to get more active," Waters told the protestors Saturday night. "We've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business." If Chauvin isn't convicted of George Floyd's death, she warned, "We cannot go away... We've got to demand justice. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business." If that means Minneapolis burns to the ground, well, it's not her district. If violence breaks out on the streets, it won't be her constituents that could lose businesses, property, their sense of safety, and sleep. As for the Left's double standard on violence, Waters is the current standard-bearer.
FRC was channeling memories of unrest which took place last place year. The protests were about the murders of black men by police officers, but right-wing organizations like FRC omitted that part and focused on the violence and destruction of property, which was mostly done not by those protesting but outside provocateurs and skirmishes between racists groups (such as the Proud Boys) and anti-racist individuals.
