The #RittenhouseVerdict is not just wrong, it’s dangerous. Rittenhouse represents a type of violence that is only going to target more and more people over time.
Every day, movements for justice lead efforts to reduce violence — to change all the rules in society that incentivize it. But white leaders must confront the white people whose decisions create this violence.
This system was built by many people and it will take many people to dismantle and rebuild it. White leaders must step up. Everyone has a role to play — no one can say, “this is not my problem.”
The system working behind a person like Rittenhouse — the police behind him, the media behind him, the lawyers and judges behind him — has the power to create more extreme and widespread violence every day.
That system is at work right now to create more murders — laws being passed by the right-wing to create a lot more Rittenhouses, more people who murder protestors.
Together, we can defeat these laws, starting by demanding Wisconsin leaders protect those who protest for racial justice. act.colorofchange.org/sign/Protect-W…
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