Posted on 01/01/2015 6:17:20 AM PST by Libloather
Brenden LaRosa showed up to protest during First Night festivities with a message: Americans must talk to each other about race and policing, no matter how hard — or how unpopular — the conversation is.
“We almost want people to feel uncomfortable. Then you’re forced to answer this question, and you’re forced to question the way you feel about it,” said the 19-year-old from Everett, who joined other demonstrators Wednesday evening in Copley Square.
He estimated that he has been to five protests against the recent grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo. “We don’t want you to walk by and think you didn’t see anything.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
And the Community Relations Service of the Dept of Just Us.
Ask me a question, I’ll tell you no lies.
Had I been closer to Boston last night, I would have consumed as much asparagus as I could stand, chased it down with gallons of soda water and redistributed it all over the idiot “die-in” participants. I would do this in the name of art, so that even the lefties would have to have embraced it...
Except when these protesters are uncomfortable, they get violent.
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