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dear people of the future, hello

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if you look back at your history books you’ll see that this period of time starting in may of 2020 a lot of weird wild shit went down after an otherwise unknown man, George Floyd, was murdered by a group of police in Minneapolis.

it’s really fascinating how some movements start and how others dwindle quickly.

but the perfect storm of so many of us being holed up due to the coronavirus lockdown and the fact that Floyd’s death was documented on handheld video while several yelled at the cops to stop, became the last straw for people… around the world, to say that racism is fucked up, the power of police is fucked up, and the fact that rarely do cops get punished is fucked up.

meanwhile theres a perfectly good quarterback being shunned from his job because he dared to peacefully protest about these very same issues.

here’s some good news though, today the LA Times said they will start capitalizing B in Black.

social media is the thing people still don’t know how to feel about

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the other day ESPN, a channel sports fans like me have loved since its inception, suspended a

sports analyst

for tweeting her opinions about something happening in sports.

to be specific, she was tweeting about an ongoing NFL protest where a handful of players are kneeling during the National Anthem to bring attention to the fact that police are killing black people, many of whom are unarmed, and not paying a price for their crimes.

companies for eons have had the upper hand on the public voices of their employees but once blogging and now Twitter have risen up, the companies are panicked because OMG what happens if an employee tweets something controversial?

the double edged sword of social media is people are either posting things benign like pictures of puppies or babies, or extremely controversial items like their feelings about politics.

what these companies dont realize or want to agree to is that Control is an Illusion. and when you suspend an analyst for analyzing you look a bit hypocritical – especially when many public-facing personalities are being judged by how many twitter followers they have.

look no further than our president who was praised by the mavericky way he was able to reach out to his millions of followers on twitter and speak his mind.

so it’s a bit odd when the leader of the free world can tweet whatever he wants, but the people in the free world are punished for it.

that dynamic is what the original europeans who settled here were escaping from: royal tyranny

this country, stolen from the native americans, was built on the idea that one could express their feelings – particularly about issues of The State – without being punished.

for if the people cannot speak truth to power in America

the home of the brave

on any platform, from blogs to tweets,

then we have bigger issues than police murdering people in cold blood.

which is fucking crazy.