Jessica had some phone issues, so the live video this time, is in 2 videos. No big deal. The video to the left is the first one. But, if you are just here to see the videos and not read the commentary, you’ll have to scroll down for the other one.

And very early on, about 12 minutes in, there was already multiple people standing on the lawn, with Confederate flags. Giant Confederate flags, with smiley faces.

Jessica had a chance to talk with Gainesville Police Chief Kevin Phillips. She confronted him about the officer who was participating in the calls for the armed militia to come out to Gainesville. He was unaware of it, he didn’t know the deputy because he works for Cooke County and not the city.

She asked the Chief if he thought it was appropriate. The Chief replied he was staying neutral in those types of things. He added that it was not something that he would do himself.

He also said that they are not enforcing Abbott’s mask order, because he doesn’t have an order to detain a person. Which, is apparently some sort of confusion about the way the order is written. Jessica asked, “Normally when executive orders are confusing to you, you just let it ride?” To which he responded, “We just don’t enforce it.” (That’s at about the 20-minute mark)

Karen.

The woman you see holding the “All Black fetuses matter” and “BLM is Marxist,” her name is Karen.

No, really, her name is Karen. Jessica giggled when she said her name and she looked at Jessica, very seriously and said, “Why is that funny?”

She then told Jessica that Black fetuses are being killed by the thousands by Planned Parenthood.

I would like to vote for this man to be the next poster child of privilege.

As PRO Gainesville was getting ready to speak, this elderly gentleman walked up to the top steps of the courthouse and hollered for everyone’s attention.

He was not affiliated with the event and when questioned about it, said he didn’t want the Confederate monuments removed, either.

Then he tried to give a sermon. He said he wanted to pray for the protesters, but not before he could preach to them and recite scripture.

His reason for doing this, he said was freedom of speech.

Willie Hudspeth was in attendance, he spoke to the crowd, said a quick prayer, and even said he would pray for Karen and her Black fetuses sign.

Jessica got a chance to speak.

Unfortunately, this is where her phone glitched out. So, we don’t get to hear all of her speech. But what she said was important.

She spoke to white allies and said it is time for them to speak up to our Uncles at Thanksgiving and at Bubu’s birthday party.

She’s right and it’s a good message.

The second video begins with the speakers of PRO Gainesville. They said that since 2015, there have 485 people shot and killed by police in the state of Texas. Then they read each one of those names.

While that was going on, the protesters were marching in front of the courthouse in silence.

And the “counter-protesters?”

They stood across the street shouting “All lives matter,” and “Stop killing police and fetuses.”

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation was there and spoke about Vanessa Guillen.

Their speaker, Johnny, was also fantastic, he spoke to the assholes across the street, and asked, “If all lives matter, then get the kids out of the cages.” He said he would tell them to go back to their own country, (The Confederate States), but that country doesn’t exist anymore.

Jessica got a chance to speak to local residents, Black and Hispanic, including some elderly women who had some fantastic stories of the past. They acknowledged that racism in Gainesville still exists.

Johnny included, that many of them are keyboard warriors. When he seems them in town, they aren’t blatantly racist, but then they get online and say “build a wall,” or “go back to Mexico.

PRO Gainesville shared their plans.

Aside from getting deputized to help register more people to vote, they had someone there who could have helped them register right away.

They said they are taking a week off from protesting. The elected officials there are supposed to meet about the Confederate monuments next week. They are giving elected officials a week to come up with a plan of action to remove the Confederate monuments in front of the courthouse, another one at a park, and rename the 3 schools in the area named after Confederate soldiers.

Immediately following, Jessica bumped into the obnoxious lady from last week. If you actually watched any of the videos, she was the blonde woman in the middle of the street jumping around and obnoxiously yelling. We’ll just call her blind Karen.

Jessica told her about the threats she had got online from the people that blind Karen was with last week. Blind Karen said she didn’t believe it. Jessica offered to show her the screenshot, the blind Karen said no, because they would be photoshopped.

This woman was a real peach. Her sign says, “Proud to be an American. I protest the inciting of violence and division in my hometown.” We’ll just call her confused Karen

Jessica asked asked her, “You must mean the armed militia that showed up last week.”

Confused Karen looked dead at Jessica and said, “No you. You’re inciting violence.”

Jessica responded, “So, you don’t think that the men pointing weapons at protesters was inciting violence.”

Then there was Mr. Almost Adorable, (who I couldn’t get a clear screenshot of), as Jessica walked by he made a heart for her and said, “I love you.” (54 minutes in video 2)

At that point he was Mr. Adorable. Then he started talking about digging up bones and we shouldn’t care what happened 200 years ago. So, he lost all adorableness, but not before Jessica told him that’s because he had white privilege and walked away.

Mr. You’re wrong but I can’t tell you why.

He asked if Jessica was the one from the Living Blue in Texas article a few days ago. He said there were things in that article that were factually incorrect. She asked him what and he tried to pull it up on his phone because he couldn’t remember what it was.

That entire article was based on Jessica’s video, it was a summary of everything that happened.

Anyone that has been following my blog knows, that Living Blue in Texas ALWAYS shows our work. We never post things that cannot be substantiated. For example, “26 Reasons John Cornyn Needs to be Voted Out in 2020,” is almost a 3,000 word article completely based on his voting record and has links directly to votes that he cast directly in the senate. There are over 100 links to sources in that one article alone.

Or when we talked about Nathan Hecht’s corruption in, “The Most Important State Elections No One is Talking About,” we only linked reputable sources with publications online, including things that happened in the 80s and 2000s.

This one was guy’s response to the heading of the article, which said, “As police chit-chatted and shook hands with the racists.” Which is so dumb, because he was saying that was the reason it was fake news…because the police chief was just being “nice.” So, it did happen, which can be proven on video, but it’s fake because the chief was just being polite. Even though during the entire 4 hour video, not once did the chief come over and chit-chat or shake hands with the protesters.

This argument is fucking stupid. If you really wanted to use this as an argument to discredit Jessica or Living Blue, the way you articulate it is, “the police chief was only being polite to the white supremacists.”

So, this man who posted this on our Facebook page didn’t understand why the protesters would be chanting “Black Lives Matter,” unless they were part of Black Lives Matter.

How fucking racist do you have to be to say that you don’t understand why people of color would be against the systematic murders of other people of color, unless they belong to one certain group.

Black lives matter to everyone who want to see an end to systematic racism. Black lives matter to anyone that is sick of seeing unarmed Black men and women killed by police. Why is this so hard for y’all to understand?