07-19-2016, 01:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2016, 03:21 PM by Skabungus.
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1. Jobs and the economy have nothing to do with this. The abuse of power by police, particularly focused against blacks and Latino populations has been a constant issue since 1865.
2. Recent outrage is directly related to the fact that now hand-held technology can capture and communicate the atrocities without the muffling effect of corporate media and political pressure.
3. Younger generations are less racist than older generations, and are speaking out. Xers and Millies on the whole are more accepting of mixed culture and find police use of force more objectionable. They address the matter using #2 above.
Take a look at the rather reasonable 10 points presented by those shameless upstarts known as BlackLivesMatter. Pretty reasonable requests/demands that go to the heart of the matter. You don't see them demanding welfare checks or drugs or more jobs do you? They are addressing the issue at hand. Dismissing this, and instead diverting the discussion to such matters as joblessness, single parent households, etc. is in and of itself racism in action. The issue is over aggressive policing policies, carried out by under trained police, selected mainly on their qualities as aggressive enforcers of the law as handed to them by the "law and order" political leaders.
http://www.puckermob.com/lifestyle/black...-they-want
After reading that, it should be really very hard to see BLM as a racist hate group, shouldn't it? All these demands are pretty middle of the road, reasonable attempts to bring about competent policing in a free society.
Oh...........and this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71Pvvnp3oE
2. Recent outrage is directly related to the fact that now hand-held technology can capture and communicate the atrocities without the muffling effect of corporate media and political pressure.
3. Younger generations are less racist than older generations, and are speaking out. Xers and Millies on the whole are more accepting of mixed culture and find police use of force more objectionable. They address the matter using #2 above.
Take a look at the rather reasonable 10 points presented by those shameless upstarts known as BlackLivesMatter. Pretty reasonable requests/demands that go to the heart of the matter. You don't see them demanding welfare checks or drugs or more jobs do you? They are addressing the issue at hand. Dismissing this, and instead diverting the discussion to such matters as joblessness, single parent households, etc. is in and of itself racism in action. The issue is over aggressive policing policies, carried out by under trained police, selected mainly on their qualities as aggressive enforcers of the law as handed to them by the "law and order" political leaders.
http://www.puckermob.com/lifestyle/black...-they-want
After reading that, it should be really very hard to see BLM as a racist hate group, shouldn't it? All these demands are pretty middle of the road, reasonable attempts to bring about competent policing in a free society.
Oh...........and this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71Pvvnp3oE
There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
-- Eugene Hutz
They are today, they are tomorrow
It's a stupid thing we say
Cursing tomorrow with sorrow
-- Eugene Hutz