BLM Plaza in DC on Saturday was a microcosm of anti-Trump America. A couple of demonstrations were planned for the afternoon, but people really started thronging there around midday, after major media outlets called the presidential race for Biden/Harris.
https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1325130699985330177
That impromptu rally lasted into the night, and it sounds like the main themes were celebration and relief. Lots of booze was consumed, and fireworks got shot off.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1325302060959543296
Not everyone on the plaza was feeling so relieved, though. Late afternoon, a group organized by @DcProtests marched to BLM Plaza to keep pushing the call for racial justice, for defunding police, and for justice for Karon Hylton. dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/11/0…
That group eventually marched to Dupont Circle, where they hooked up with the anti-fascist group They/Them Collective, who then marched to BLM Plaza and called out the revelers for missing the bigger picture.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1325283731112910849
So, in one space, you had a bunch of relieved progressives, a group of BLM activists reminding them that the hard work on racial justice remains to be done, and a group of anti-fascist anarchists who see both Biden and Trump as expressions of the same rotten system. /end
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