Not everyone needs to carry. Unless of course its open war. Just the prospect of possible armed response is enough to make bullies think twice. The best everyone who can’t or won’t carry at protest can do is show support for those that do. Let them know. And if interviewed let the journalist know the crowd is happy to have them there. Do everything in your power to not let the media other them, or turn them into a boogieman. It’s what they always do.

A lot of black people have long been prepared for this. So many white people feel like things are all a suddenly falling apart. Never realizing things were never as they thought they were. The veil hasn’t slipped like this since kent state. And we’d do ourselves a disservice to let them casually pull it back up again.