Only when they do it, it's for
no reason at all--like losing a fucking game they didn't actually play--or, worse, to
blame it on blacks:
Looting by Black people, whether during the protests of police brutality or in an effort to obtain food and supplies during natural disasters, has long been a popular media narrative— further perpetuating the stereotype of Black people in America as inherently lawless. Because of this, it is significant that we’re now seeing widespread recognition that looting and unnecessary destruction of property happening at Black Lives Matter and other anti-police brutality protests are not solely, or even predominantly, being carried out by Black protestors. In fact, thanks to camera phones, we have a plethora of video evidence to the contrary.
...
After Saturday’s protest in downtown Seattle led to the looting of the Nordstrom flagship store, a white woman was seen on the local news walking out of the store with bags full of merchandise. The anchor, however, never refers to her as a looter and even floats the idea of her possibly being an employee — a consideration that would likely not have been given to a non-white woman.
A thread by Twitter user @FreeYourMindKid reveals exhaustive documentation of these instances, including a Black woman in Minneapolis confronting two white men who’d stolen alcohol from a liquor store that’d been broken into. When she asks one of the men why he was out there and what was his name, he responds, “Definitely not George Floyd.”
And, of course, there's even a pet name some have adopted ("
boogaloos"), but it's really just a rehash of Manson's
Helter Skelter, which, of course, is far, far worse, because it has a political agenda behind it that goes way beyond mere opportunistic exploits of a few individuals and into an organized agenda.
