Whites in Protest

By Bryan Jenkins It’s hard to close my eyes, with all that’s been going on in America these last couple of years. I turn the lights off, hoping the t.v. will lull me to sleep. But protests over police brutality still keep me up.We Baby Boomers have gotten uncomfortably used to a lifetime of them… Watts in ’65… Detroit in ’67… Rodney King in ’92… Eric Gardner in 2014, Ferguson in 2016… George Floyd in 2020… Tyre Nichols in 2023… and a wealth of others in between… always over police brutality against a black person… so many, I can’t even name them all. But, what’s got me surprised and awake is the millions of WHITE people protesting – with signs, t-shirts and voices exclaiming “Black Lives Matter”! 35 years in T.V. news… I thought I’d seen everything! But white people, en masse, pounding the pavement for black folks! WOW! …& seems like a whole lot of people are waking up to the idea that, as a nation, we sink or swim TOGETHER. We’ve seen NFL commissioner Roger Goodell apologize on national T.V. for ignoring black athletes protesting police brutality. We saw Republican Senator Mitt Romney get “woke” – marching with...