This is what my best friend from my first years of college wrote in the summer of 2020 on Facebook: "If we as a society have determined that the loss of people's 'properties' are more worthy of our focus, rage, and grief than the constant loss of black lives, then we truly haven't made any progress from the days of slavery when black lives were forced into being 'properties' of others." If you truly parse what he wrote, he said that if people care about property damage (via looting and rioting), then our society is no better than a slave-owning society. Let that sink in. When one person politely tried to make the case that some black people were even outraged by the looting, my college friend started with, "As I am not black, I don't think it's my place to determine whether the rioting is overboard or not even remotely enough." At the end of that follow-up comment, he linked to an article named, "In Defense of Looting". I