"Yesterday I spoke about how my stores and stores of my friends were looted," he said."I apologize that it seemed like my concern for those stores outweighed my concern for our right to protest injustice and express our anger and rage in this moment."He added:"I apologize that my comments yesterday appeared as if my main concerns are anything other than full solidarity with the movement against police violence, racism, and inequality.
"People who criticize 'looting' often do so as a way to make it seem like our fight against injustice isn't legitimate," Virgil continued."I did not realize the ways my comments accidentally contributed to that narrative.""As many have said, buildings are brick and mortar and material things can be replaced, people can't," he went on."Black lives matter. In this moment, those other things don't.
Virgil added that while he was fortunate enough to be able to rebuild his stores, he recognised that other people were not and so revealed he would be seeking out those store owners in order to help. On the subject of his donation, Virgil said that he could"understand [the] frustration" but that the total wasn't entirely accurate as he had privately made a bigger pledge."I have donated $20,500 to bail funds and other causes related to the movement," he revealed."I will continue to donate more and will continue to use my voice to urge my peers to do the same."
Virgil went on to say that he didn't originally publicise the amount of money he'd donated because he didn't want to come off as performative or invalidate smaller pledges."I was on the fence about publicizing total dollar amounts because I didn't want to look like I'm glorifying only higher amounts or that I want to be applauded for it," he said."I encourage everyone to band together to match funds of their own proportion, regardless of what you have.
Is he supposed to thank looters and scumbags and then as a bonus give them money to get out of jail?
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