{"id":66966,"date":"2016-07-19T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66966"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:16:43","slug":"a-day-of-rage-in-salt-lake-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66966","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Rage in Salt Lake City"},"content":{"rendered":"

B. Woodman went to his local “Day of Rage” in Salt Lake City and sends this report;<\/p>\n

I went to the so-called “Day of Rage” yesterday, for ?#?BLM?, just to see how many, and what kinds of, people would show up. How out”Rage”ous would this event be? Actually, it turned out to be not much of an event at all. A fizzle.<\/p>\n

I arrived at the SLCC (Salt Lake Community College, 4600 S Redwood Rd) campus shortly before 5PM (when it was supposed to start), guided in by two TV camera vans, Channel 4 KTVX ABC, and Channel 13 Fox. No one else was there yet.
\nAfter a few minutes, close to 5 o’clock, some people started trickling in, a pair of older (ancient) hippie types, and a few younger people.<\/p>\n

Several other cars, and people drifted in, and a few minutes after 5, there were maybe a dozen people gathered. They were just chatting among themselves, apparently renewing acquaintances. No protest, no podium, no microphones.
\nSome ten minutes later, one black dude started chanting the tired refrain, “Black Lives Matter”. So I challenged him on that, asking him, “What about me? Doesn’t my life matter? Don’t white lives matter? Or Asians? Or anyone else?” That quieted him down.<\/p>\n

Then some white woman, wearing a pink blouse, came over to me and told me that I was disrupting this event, and to go away. Must have been feeling the “white privilege guilt”. Of course, I didn’t leave. At least, not right away. I wanted to see what else (if anything), might happen. And, unsurprisingly enough, nothing else happened. So about 5:30, I left to go home. (I had the Missus Woodman and dinner waiting for me)<\/p>\n

There were a few counter-protesters there (“All Lives Matter”), so we high-fived and hugged each other.<\/p>\n

Before I left, I took a rough count of the people there, total maybe two dozen.. As I mentioned before, there were roughly a dozen (very quiet) “protesters”. There were about half-a-dozen counter protesters. Oh, and four TV people, two reporters, and two cameramen. Can’t forget them. After all, “All Lives Matter”, especially the people who get your message out to the rest of the world. And another half-dozen or so people just hanging around the edges, taking pictures and notes of this non-“event”. <\/p>\n

I was there to do a little of both, to take pictures, and to “stir the pot”. So I guess I succeeded in that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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