re: Where does Donovan Mitchell live

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I think that you are taking his quote the wrong way

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No, I understand what he meant. The question of the thread title is rhetorical. I’m just using it to start a bigger discussion. While we’re talking about quotes from that montage again, there’s another one that is worrisome as I think it reflects a lot of what is going on.

I don’t know who it was, but I’ll paraphrase: “I don’t have all the answers, but I’m a black man and I feel a certain way.” On its face, nothing wrong with it. I’m sure as a black man, he does feel a certain way right now. But is it that he doesn’t know the answers or that he doesn’t know the questions and is just falling in line because he thinks he’s “supposed” to?

It looks like most of the protestors are just following the crowd, not really fully understanding why, not knowing the questions. And for those that do know the questions, where are their answers, the solutions they want to see? Are they waiting for people manning the systems they hate (systemic racism) to come up with the answers for them? That’s absurd. It’s equally absurd to protest for an abstract idea like “social justice,” “peace,” “equality,” “police brutality,” whatever. If it’s not concrete and quantifiable, they’re just tilting at windmills.