No, my regret is those who will die DUE to those people. Someone's grandmother didn't go out... but is likely enough to catch corona. That's where my rage lies.

Meanwhile, I still think the start are two short sentences that would do a world of good.

Second most important: Let's talk.

Most important: Let's listen.

That's where your rage lies? All the people I know considering participating in the protests, myself included, have been fully aware of the possibility and consequences of COVID-19 spreading at these protests. It's a struggle between fighting a moral injustice and making sure we don't further a pandemic. At least most of the protestors I've seen have been trying to minimize the risks by wearing masks, and in the smaller protests, keeping 6 feet apart. Meanwhile, there are still people praising those "I want a haircut" idiot protestors and beach party morons as supporting freedom.

Maybe channel the rage at the continued police brutality that forces people to choose between speaking out and spreading disease or ignoring the continued injustice and staying safe?

Which is hilarious because I can mine several dozen threads right here, where I and other POC are trying to explain perspectives from a non-privileged point of view, and they get dismissed as "manufactured outrage" or "political correctness" or "victimhood" or "not true because I've never seen that" or dismissed because white people have to deal with that too or any of the other dozen ways these types of discussions on race and racism and prejudice get filtered through a white perspective.

I mean, it's wonderful that people are realizing they need to listen, but asking people to listen is not something new or infrequent. That it takes massive protests across the country for people to wake up to the necessity of listening tells you the importance of the protests.

You participated - and I say good for you. If I weren't semi-crippled right now, I'd likely have been in downtown Cleveland protesting also. But I'm stuck at home, and the only one I see is my wife (and my doctors.) I wash frequently, I sanitize my hands... can you say the same? Are you isolated? Or are you seeing any single other person? And six feet apart - not even close.

I can rage at both. I have long said that there's nothing worse than a dirty cop, and I damn near jumped for joy last night when I heard the other three were being accused of aiding and abetting. In US law, I believe that a&a in commission of a felony means that they're just as guilty.

And you say "Let's listen" is hilarious. Okay... where would you start? There's a lot that needs to be done, and as an old white American male, I know that I do not have a proper perspective on this matter. That's why I want to listen. Dirty cops are a start, but not the only problem.

NONE of this is easy. And we're in the middle of at least three crises that I can count (corona, dirty cops, and President Murder.) I'm listening to YOU - where would you start with this? What would you do to begin healing?

I'm neither mocking nor tasking you, and as noted - I'm ignorant as a bucket of dung. I have intellectually known the problem, and I could never associate to it emotionally. Seriously - where do we start?

In other words...”Stop bitching about the lives we are allowing you to have!  You had a black President for fucks sake!”