shel311 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:32 pm
This dude actually saying show me where it says protests are supposed to be peaceful...that has to be one of those George-like trolls where you pretend you're dumb and don't know any better, right?
77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn, who served 38 years with the St. Louis P.D., was shot and killed while protecting a friend’s pawn shop from looters.
Supposedly it was caught on Facebook Live, but there are no suspects. You would think Facebook could give the authorities who was broadcasting so they could at least build some kind of case
edit: Looks like they came up afterwards and started recording. At least that's the way it read
Got a good Army buddy that retired last year post the following message. He grew up in south central LA and is a black man who had to deal with institutional racism when he grew up. His uncle was beat up by cops coming out of a USC game one year, he was a worker at that game. I just thought it was a good read and gives you something to think about what you can actually do when you say #BLM
What does black lives matter mean?
Is it applicable only when it can been used for whatever purpose the user of that term or movement deems. Or is it a concept that the lives of each individual black person matters?
I naturally assume that latter.
It bugs me to see people saying they dont feel safe because of cops. It bugs me even more when race or racism is brought into the fold.
Make no mistake i do acknowledge the state we are in as a country, and the uphill battle we face to eradicate a system that is peppered with individuals in powerful postions that hold on to racist believes and values. However i believe we as a people as a black people lose credibility when we shout and march and riot over black lives mattering, but from the outside looking in, statistically backed, we as black people demonstrate that we dont care about our own. What leg do we have to stand on complaining or protesting about our lives that been taken (by police) when we have taken more ourselves. How are we not ok with the lives that have been taken by police, but ok or accepting of the lives in our neighborhoods that we take from our selves? How do we expect to be taken seriously? We are ok with saying i dont feel safe because of police, but we wont say or acknowledge we arent safe from our own in gang or drug ridden areas of our neighborhoods. This confuses me. There have been 30+ killings of blacks by police in 2020. Do a quick google search of how many blacks have killed blacks in 2020.
I applaud the emotion and energy that has been put into this movement, however i feel it could and should be redirected. Good leaders, pillars of commuities, etc got to their positions by setting an example. After your google search what example have we set? If we first redirected this energy we are spending to cleaning "our own house", not accepting the sale or drugs or killing of our own. Protesting when an innocent child is killed in a drive by, rioting when the drug dealers wont leave the corners, we will set a tone that truely shows we care about black lives. So that when one is taken and we are upset our screams can and will be taken seriously. Those people in power with racist inklings will have no basis to continue to enble the growth of institutional racisim.
What has happen in most of the police brutalities we have been shown is complete wrong and egregious. And should not be tolerated. I wholeheartedly believe that. But the anger, frustration, dissappointment, and sadness i feel for what that 100 or so cops have done to our people, does not even come close to the anger, frustration, dissappointment, and saddness i feel for the 1000s of us blacks and what we have done to ourselves.
Instead of picking and choosing when black lives matter, lets make them matter always, and lets start making them matter to ourselves..
We must not clean up the communities that have been ruined, and if you do according to this person, you don't care about black people and are using your white privilege.
Re: Politics and shit
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 12:56 pm
by nick
r/dankmemes is the best. just made me laugh from the WW2 shit from yesterday
That cop has more self control than I do. Same with a soldier taking it the other day from a protestor. I would have been demoted for but stroking the guy.
You watch the news with all the rioting and 70% of them are white folks. They too busy trying to stay "woke" during these times.
And I HATE the word "woke" about as much as I hate Social Distancing and The New Normal
That cop has more self control than I do. Same with a soldier taking it the other day from a protestor. I would have been demoted for but stroking the guy.
You watch the news with all the rioting and 70% of them are white folks. They too busy trying to stay "woke" during these times.
And I HATE the word "woke" about as much as I hate Social Distancing and The New Normal
I thought ever since they repealed “Don’t ask, don’t tell” you were free to butt stroke whoever you want without fear of demotion?
Re: Politics and shit
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:07 am
by GeorgesGoons
sixpackdan101 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:47 am
I thought ever since they repealed “Don’t ask, don’t tell” you were free to butt stroke whoever you want without fear of demotion?
75 year old man attempts to return a police helmet. Police proceed to push him down knocking him unconscious and bleeding from his head.
Re: Politics and shit
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:19 pm
by Cnasty
Yuck that was a rough watch
Re: Politics and shit
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:31 pm
by Cnasty
Update:
#BREAKING: I’m told the entire @BPDAlerts Emergency Response Team has resigned from the team, a total of 57 officers, as a show of support for the officers who are suspended without pay after shoving Martin Gugino, 75. They are still employed, but no longer on ERT.
Re: Politics and shit
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:56 pm
by shel311
Cnasty wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:19 pm
Yuck that was a rough watch
That sound when someone's head hits the pavement like that, I wince every time.
