Just a coincidence.
You don’t pull them up all the way?
Edit: Hey wait, what happened to what I actually quoted about you only being black in your pants?
I think I changed my post on you mid quote, haha. For context I said “just in my pants”
Now that the mood has changed… some light humor that FinanceConsultant will take seriously.
^I can’t get YouTube at work so I have to guess. That’s either the Always Sunny clip about looting or you’re Rick Rolling.
Just Chris Rock. Guide to not getting beaten by police. Would be better if we weren’t talking about a case where the guy literally did nothing.
You laughed, admit it.
A little soon for me. I’m still a bit wired up about the whole thing.
^Don’t take this the wrong way or nothing…but is there ever a time when you’re not wired up about something?
BS has these weird moments where he suddenly feels a need to fight every single post that doesnt agree with him.
NYC has a like-for-like racial police force, and just look at the stats. certain races still commit FAR MORE crimes than the others.
what is “like-for-like racial police force”?
bs showed up
Why are we ignoring the bias (and more likely racist) reporting of these riots?
The peaceful riots have been ignored and the media concentrated on the narrative that fits their pre conceived bias against African Americans.
that’s not because of race. That’s because people are more inclined to watch news where there’s destruction and anarchy. The media is just giving them that. higher viewership -> higher ad revenue
It is because of race. I agree with your second argument though.
Yep , Black Swan is dead right.
MLK might have become the face for the civil rights movt but Malcolm X and the Black Panther movement were equally important and arguably more influential. The British only started dealing with Gandhi after they realized that there were people like Bose who were waiting and willing to take the fight for independence to Winston Churchill’s doorstep. Mandela finally abandoned his policy and encouraged the African National Congress to pick up arms to end the White apartheid government. Violence forces change , somethimes for the better.
I liked his comment about revisionism and how the narrative is sometimes twisted depending on race. Taking it beyond the African-American community, It rarely gets talked about but to this day the Belgian government maintains that their colonial era in the Congo was the White man bringing ‘civilization’ to Congo. Never mind that this ‘civilization’ included chopping black limbs for missing rubber quotas and creating a false market so White folk in Antwerp had a life full of comfort. The Belgian government have still not acknowledged their actions beyond accepting their role in the assasination of Patrice Lumumba and recently shutting down a museum which had a plaque celebrating Belgian rule in the Congo. The official line given was 'It will offend the older (read :white colonial officers generation) What about the 60+ million Congolese living in a failed state because of White people’s selfish interests? I suppose it doesn’t matter if we ‘offend’ them.
Back to African - American community we had the whole ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement where the leaders have met Obama and made some steps to improve the situation. Since then , we’ve had an unarmed Black man manhandled to death in NYC , one dude shot in the back while running away and this. That’s just what we know about too. I’m surprised people aren’t even more furious.
To reinforce the point about the futility of non-violence against thugs - how is Dalai Lama’s non-violent movement working out for Tibetans in Chinese-occupied Tibet?
You really can’t argue that America’s protest of WWII in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki really sent a message.
The current US issue is that some potentially violent criminals were involved in violence with police forces. I don’t think we can compare this to Congo, or even the civil rights movement in the US. Furthermore, in today’s case, non violence (in protest and in life in general) will actually solve the problem. Is there such thing in the US as police brutality against Japanese Americans? No, because these guys don’t go looking for trouble.