becomingkate | (no subject)

I just want to say I know I have been relatively quiet when it comes to controversial topics. I am pretty much as liberal as they come. But I don't believe in going out to riot. I don't understand it. And I know peaceful protest isn't working either so people are frustrated and angry. But my husband asked last night, why are they burning down their own city? What does that do? And I didn't have an answer for him.
Yesterday he texted me something that's probably one of the most insightful things I've seen/heard him say. He said, in a nutshell, "It's hard to relate when none of these events hit home for us. We've never personally experienced school shootings, we don't know anyone who died from COVID, we don't know any victims of police violence. It feels like these things are happening a world away." My husband never admits that kind of thing.
And I know that all of this screams PRIVILEGE and I feel lucky and ashamed at the same time that I've never experienced any of these hardships that some people live with every day.
My husband texted me this morning saying people are throwing things off the overpass at cars going by underneath. How does this help anything?