[blm; protest] So, my home town of about 3600 people which is, according to the census, about 96% White in rural Illinois had a Black Lives Matter protest.

And... I was not expecting this.

Rural Illinois is not... defund the police territory.

there was evidently a counter-protest as well. Pictures of it show six people holding up all lives matter signs.

But. Compared to the BLM group, that's nothing.

wow

https://www.change.org/... also, this online petition has gotten over eight hundred signatures to remove the Confederate monument in the center of my current town. this is in a town of 10,000 people.

now, there may be a lot of alumni who are signing this, but that means that a lot of alumni who went to school in rural Alabama want to see this statue gone.