Protests worldwide embrace Black Lives Matter movement

[4737 Carlin]

A black man was killed somewhere so that means no more coronavirus. Virtue-signalling your outrage at the death of a man you didn't know automatically gives you immunity. Being seen not-to-be-racist is the most important thing on the planet by far. Deadly diseases don't stand a chance against someone who is absolutely in no way a racist. Not being a racist will probably also give you immortality and superpowers.

[Phuketshrew]

So if the 75 year old white guy that was pushed over by police in Buffalo dies is everyone going to take to the streets all over the world for "White Lives Matter" ?

[racket]

27 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

This is about racist police, don't deflect.

https://web.facebook.com/realCandaceOwens/videos/273957870461345/

 

It hurts to learn the truth.. but I understand where you are coming from.

[Jingthing]

36 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

What needs to be done ?

Finally facing the nation's original sin openly and head on. 

I make no claims to be a policy wonk so you're barking up the wrong tree. 

 

A first step is electing officials that get that there needs to be big changes. 

 

This will be a generational process. You can't reverse centuries of injustice instantly. 

 

President to be elected Joe Biden 

“We can’t leave this moment thinking we can once again turn away and do nothing,” he said. “The moment has come for our nation to deal with systemic racism. To deal with the growing economic inequality in our nation.”

 

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by Jingthing

[Bluespunk]

27 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

This is about racist police, don't deflect.

Now, now, don't be so mean...deflection is all they have left when it comes to police brutality

[lannarebirth]

3 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

So if the 75 year old white guy that was pushed over by police in Buffalo dies is everyone going to take to the streets all over the world for "White Lives Matter" ?

An interesting phenomenon I've observed is that many white people don't seem to care when other people die, regardless of skin color. 

[lannarebirth]

20 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Finally facing the nation's original sin openly and head on. 

I make no claims to be a policy wonk so you're barking up the wrong tree. 

 

A first step is electing officials that get that that there need to be big changes. 

 

This will be a generational process. You can't reverse centuries of injustice instantly. 

 

 

I think It is right to label slavery as America's original sin, but I think it's wrong to suggest that Americans were the only guilty party.

 

I also think it is wrong for all white people to be saddled with the original sin of white privilege. A baby born today should not have to carry that burden.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by lannarebirth

[CorpusChristie]

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Finally facing the nation's original sin openly and head on. 

I make no claims to be a policy wonk so you're barking up the wrong tree. 

 

A first step is electing officials that get that there needs to be big changes. 

 

 

 

 

Yes, but what changes need to be made ?

[CorpusChristie]

2 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:

 

I think It is right to label slavery as America's original sin, bought I think it's wrong to suggest that Americans were the only guilty party.

 

I also think it is wrong for all white people to be saddled with the original sin of white privilege. A baby born today should not have to carry that burden.

Slavery is a World issue , many Countries were involved .

It all ended 100s of years ago, we really all need to move on and to stop going on about it.

   White people also got enslaved , all need to move on  

[ThailandRyan]

36 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

This is about racist police, don't deflect.

It was made to fit whatever agenda someone needed.  People need to look inward.  Stopping a crime and then committing one yourself are two different things.  Then to turn the agenda on its ear and loot, pillage, and burn down your own neighborhood stores and injure your own ethnic group while saying its the fault of the police is pure BS.  Every occupation has it's share of idiots who disgrace the profession.  Being held accountable by the system for wrongdoing needs to be consistent across the board.......If you believe that all police are racist then the jaded views have already been played out in your mind.  It is about holding people accountable and treating others with respect regardless or race, color or creed.  Never forget that.  All have been disenfranchised at one time or another going all the way back in history to the Egyptians and the Jews.

[Sujo]

What happened donald. Last week you said citizens had a right to peaceful protest. But not if its the nfl players taking a knee.

 

He still doesnt get it. But good to see the nfl finally gets it. Poor donald.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/nfl-decision-to-permit-kneeling-protest-by-players-enrages-donald-trump

 

 

[xylophone]

1 minute ago, Sujo said:

What happened donald. Last week you said citizens had a right to peaceful protest. But not if its the nfl players taking a knee.

 

He still doesnt get it. But good to see the nfl finally gets it. Poor donald.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/nfl-decision-to-permit-kneeling-protest-by-players-enrages-donald-trump

 

 

An American friend sent me an email a few days ago and there is a part of it I will share here because he and I believe it is relevant to this thread..........

 

I spent a decade as an officer of the Court holding arrest powers over juveniles; then in Singapore, (as Director of SACAC for several years) I was empowered by the Director of the Central Narcotics Bureau to have any drug besotted expatriate family I chose expelled from the country in 24 hrs (thus preventing caning and potential death penalties.)

 

My best friend and roommate for many years was a police detective --and later an attny and judge--with whom I also worked with daily.

 

So I am sympathetic and intimately familiar with the challenges officers of the law face daily.

 

Like POTUS and that Beast in Uniform, I had a duty and responsibility to protect and serve our citizenry, as well as the Constitution of the USA.

 

That requires both understanding and respecting it.

 

So I was similarly horrified when riot police surrounding the WH forcefully and violently violated the rights of peaceful protesters by clearing them from a public street so POTUS could take a walk.

 

The right to Assembly on public property (for the purpose of protest)--for even the most unpopular of causes--is a sacred and particularly protected right under our Constitution. 

 

The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.  It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.  It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely.  It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.   

 

Freedom from Offense receives no mention; neither does Freedom from Inconvenience.

 

A POTUS who understands that would have chosen another place to walk, or another place for a photo-op.

 

But that blatant disregard for one of this nation's most sacred democratic principles was intended to send a message--a message sent countless times since POTUS took office.

 

And that message--communicated even more powerfully by actions than words--is heard clearly by racists and haters, much like a dog whistle is heard by hounds without it making a sound we humans can hear. [It's known as "Dog Whistle Politics" in American political vernacular--sending a clear signal while retaining a paper thin credible denial that any was sent]

 

Can anyone doubt that Derek Chauvin--the Beast in Uniform crushing the life out of a helpless black man--probably felt that (at some primitive level) POTUS would not disapprove?

 

 

 

 

 

[cyril sneer]

they're angry that white people like other races more, which is justified as other races don't cause anywhere near as much chaos

[time2093]

30 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

So if the 75 year old white guy that was pushed over by police in Buffalo dies is everyone going to take to the streets all over the world for "White Lives Matter" ?

Only if he was pushed by a black cop.

[ThailandRyan]

Catholics have always taken a knee in reverence to the lord.

 

Tim Tebow was the first as an NFL player and he caused controversy when he did it. He made it famous when his end zone celebration was not a spike or a dance, but a very public, prominent, knee. For Tebow it was a statement about what he believed.  If you take a knee for something you believe in you are criticized all over.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tebo-pernick-syndrome-if-you-kneel-for-something-theyll_b_59c17feee4b0c3e70e742891

[mr336]

1 hour ago, bodga said:

Because under Obama everything was   great was it?

I worked and lived in Riviera Beach Florida for 25 years. It ranks as the top murder/crime city in Florida. Things defenatley took a <deleted> with regards to blacks loathing whites when Obama was president. I could just see it going to the local stores. It was sad he made things worse. He had a tremendous opportunity to try and turn things around. As usual.

 

Just my experience.

[pegman]

In my own Canadian hometown, an 8 hour drive from Minneapolis, 15,000 protested in support of American blacks yesterday.  It's unbelievable that in 2020 this sort of nonsense is still happening. I think it is past time other countries started taking some serious action to put a stop to the continuing violence and discrimination against American blacks. The election of a well-known racist like Trump (birther/Central Park 5) should have triggered action previously. Taking a page out of their own playbook sanctions at a minimum need to be applied. They should be removal from the G7. Russia has done its time out and like Trump has stated they should be returned to the club. That would keep it at G7. After that the moving vans should be brought in and pack up the UN. Canada is a short drive away and we are prepared to build a new headquarters. A list of demands intended to put an end to the  inherent and systemic racial discrimination will be forwarded  to the American government. Should they comply they will then be allowed to re-join the global community. 

[Kadilo]

Well despite all the Police and Government warnings in London social distancing wasn’t observed, no surprise there. 
 

Also good to see despite Dick’s (Cressida not Boris) warning that it was unlawful there was no heavy handed interventions and violence apart from the odd incident. 
 

So now we can all accept that social distancing in unnecessary and unenforceable and forget all the other nonsense.  
 

 

[CorpusChristie]

2 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Well despite all the Police and Government warnings in London social distancing wasn’t observed, no surprise there. 
 

Also good to see despite Dick’s (Cressida not Boris) warning that it was unlawful there was no heavy handed interventions and violence apart from the odd incident. 
 

So now we can all accept that social distancing in unnecessary and unenforceable and forget all the other nonsense.  
 

 

Wait for two weeks to see the level of infections and see whether they rise or not

[roo860]

10 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Well despite all the Police and Government warnings in London social distancing wasn’t observed, no surprise there. 
 

Also good to see despite Dick’s (Cressida not Boris) warning that it was unlawful there was no heavy handed interventions and violence apart from the odd incident. 
 

So now we can all accept that social distancing in unnecessary and unenforceable and forget all the other nonsense.  
 

 

Apart from the scum defacing monuments, a policewoman fell from her horse as a bicycle was launched at her. Should have deployed water cannon to disperse the cretins.

Edited June 7, 2020 by roo860

[roo860]

[Kadilo]

9 minutes ago, roo860 said:

Apart from the scum defacing monuments, a policewoman fell from her horse as a bicycle was launched at her. Should have deployed water cannon to disperse the cretins.

The fact they did nothing is good enough to say all this social distancing nonsense is over. Any interventions by the Police going forwards will be laughed at. 

[ThailandRyan]

8 minutes ago, roo860 said:

Not a very nice way to treat the statue of a truly great president who risked it all to help abolish slavery and bring the country back on track, but hatred is and has always run deep in people  You can not fix perception or jadedness that people feel, and you never will able to change peoples hearts and minds.....

[Kadilo]

18 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Wait for two weeks to see the level of infections and see whether they rise or not

It’s irrelevant, it’s happened and allowed to happen so we can forget all this nonsense and move on. 

[wombat]

3 hours ago, Tug said:

It’s hopefull to see people of all races marching together the clip of Floyd’s 6 year old daughter riding on her uncles shoulders looking out at the marchers exclaming daddy changed the world will stay with me for a long time let’s hope this is the trigger that brings meaningful change 

in Oz they have been protesting for the last 50 years through successive govts that have given lip service at election time and nothing after the election....flogging a dead horse comes to mind.

Dr. Anthony Dillion, Aboriginal academic,
"An Australian Government publication, The Health of Australia’s Prisoners: 2015, states:......
“Indigenous Australians were no more likely to die in custody than non-Indigenous Australians” and “With just over one-quarter (27 per cent) of prisoners in custody being Indigenous, and 17 per cent of deaths in custody being Indigenous, Indigenous prisoners were under-represented.”

[BobBKK]

5 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

If they matter so much ,why do far more of them constantly kill each other?

This. Data is clear more crimes by Blacks so they get stopped more - what's the problem?

[Pilotman]

This needs to be widened.  All lives matter, black, white and any other colour in between.  Police brutality, societies indifference to discrimination of all kinds, individual racism, institutional racism in large, small, medium organisations and within governments, they are all evil and need to be eradicated.  I would like to see this world wide protest expand into a demand for respect for all lives and an end to all discrimination. 

[Siamjim]

BLM is apparently racist, ever heard of them go after blacks? Hispanics? Asian? NO they ONLY target 1 particular race-whites.. if that is not racist ?
WHY_V_
if people do research on BLM they will see BLM has connection with Jihadist and Hamas .... Iran Ayatollah Khamenei is on record showing praises and support to BLM.......
BTW > don't use google search..you'll never find it there

[teatime101]

2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

All lives matter, black, white and any other colour in between. 

Yes, but it's a different issue. These protests are specifically about longterm institutional racism against blacks. You can start your own worthwhile campaign, no problem, and I'll cheer you  for it.

[BobBKK]

2 minutes ago, teatime101 said:

Yes, but it's a different issue. These protests are specifically about longterm institutional racism against blacks. You can start your own worthwhile campaign, no problem, and I'll cheer you  for it.

And as we know no white Police officers ever get killed by Blacks right?