Turtleboy: Why are Worcester Protesters So Silent About I-93 Arrests?

Monday, January 19, 2015

Turtleboy

The big news this week was that 29 knucklehead hippies jumped onto I-93 Thursday morning, chained themselves to barrels, and in a failed attempt to “draw attention” to the “black lives matter” movement. The protesters, many of which were wearing adult diapers because they intended to soil themselves, kept a chemotherapy patient from getting to an appointment, an ambulance from getting a seriously hurt patient to the hospital, and countless others from getting to work.

The general consensus has been a feeling of disgust from residents of Massachusetts. And why wouldn’t it? The protesters, none of whom were African-American and most of which were wealthy twenty-somethings who still live at home with their parents, displayed a general disregard for the plight of the hundreds of thousands of people who were affected by their display.

They were trying to “raise awareness” about the guilt white people should feel about their “privilege.” First of all, there’s nothing more useless than a movement meant to “raise awareness.” These protests have been front page news for two months now. Everyone’s aware of what happened in Ferguson and Staten Island, but life goes on. People have to get to work. The bank won’t allow us to miss mortgage payment because a grand jury didn’t indict Darren Wilson.

Ironically what the protesters ended up doing was displaying their own privilege. Noah McKenna and other protesters didn’t have to work that day because you don’t need a job to live in your Mom’s basement. And the fact that they felt that they felt entitled to dictate the economic well-being of thousands of commuters based on their perceived skin color, is elitist, classist, and racist.

The black community as a whole has soundly rejected this garbage for it is. Well-known African-American leader Reverend Eugene Rivers put it best when he said, “They’re exploiting the legitimate issues of black people to advance their own interests. These white occupy Wall Street trust fund babies are having a good time at the expense of black people.”

Reverend Rivers hit the nail on the head. These protesters don’t care about black people and never have. If they did then they wouldn’t have made a mockery of the movement. No social movement has ever experience success by intentionally trying to create havoc amongst people they should be trying to convert to their cause.

My question is, why is the Worcester protest movement so silent on this? Last week they showed up in force to talk, and talk, and talk about supposed instances of racism in the Worcester Police Department. But now when this happens they have no comment? At least Reverend Rivers had called them out for being the frauds that they are? Where is the same condemnation from Professor Sonya Conner, the ACLU’s Chris Robarge, Robert Blackwell-Gibbs, Michael Jerry, Deb Powers, and the countless other professional protesters? Their silence only reinforces their own fraudulence.

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