As usual, right-wingers read just enough of MLK to willfully misread him.
But no. Losing an election doesn’t equal “oppression.” Failing to have that election overturned because your preferred candidate is off his rocker doesn’t equal “oppression.”
Daily systemic abuses taking place over centuries that deny the humanity of and ghettoize an entire race of people equals that.
The murder of George Floyd was oppression — the spark that lit an entire undergrowth of justified African-American resentment toward the police and American society at large.
We have to actually end the abuses and effectuate equality to end the race riots.
