Even if you have to defend yourselves against the police, do what you gotta do.

Some folks don’t respect a damn thing BUT violence. It’s how they roll, it’s all they answer to, it is how they are wired, it is what they have taught others, it is the state in which they (including the cops) have become the most vile, hateful and violent entity in the United States of America.

This isn’t a government take-down, it’s about a whole lot of Black people who are tired of taking shyt off of America’s piddling state and local governments that don’t protect Black people, but treat Black American citizens as if they are not.

We worked, fought, bled and died to build a nation (even under stress, duress and force) that has NEVER respected us OR our rights as Black American citizens and when the day comes that talking is out and we have to take up arms, too — it’s not an indication of OUR failures, but of their own.

With all due respect, it’s long past time to stop asking dumb questions about what THEY want from us to prove our loyalty to this country, and do what we have to do to protect OURSELVES in this country.

What THEY want no longer matters. It never should have mattered anyway.

They brought this day on themselves. Period.