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I don't think you understand unless you lived it yourself. you don't know what gangster culture is, or how its a virus on a community. i have had friends from everywhere turkey, ghana, etc. i judge people on who they are not there skin colour, but the fact is in not well of areas (ghettos) there are a ton of black people that can get violent instantly.Comment -
Racism is becoming a thing of the past.. It's really played out with a twist if you ask me.. The media keeps it going with isolated incidents, white on black or Mexican crimes.. It constantly stirs the pot.... Politicians also pull the race card to gain notoriety and popularity also..
This is the problem today....
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Well considering i lived in the worst part of South London for 21 years of my life i would say so yes. i lived in a nice house, raised properly good family. but i was still around this all the time. people bringing in knives when i was in school. seen so many fights and people get the shit beat out of them. staying round a friends house and his brother comes home at the middle of the night with a balaclava saying he bashed a guy round the head trying to rob his house. just typical normal behaviour for London. always looking over your shoulder if your out at night.
Go watch Top Boy or Kidulthood to understand the kind of culture i was around. don't assume everyone's brought up in a nice Irish gated community.Comment -
Ha are there gated communities in ireland?!Comment -
Ahh i see!Comment -
Ravens/Saints Over 50 1/2 is solid I think... Both Secondaries are banged up and both offenses are high powered.. Playing in the dome on fast turf as well.. Sharing is caring...Comment -
luca seems pretty clueless when it comes to betting NFL...he cried about "last minute super rare BS" in the packers/vikings game...didnt realize vikings scoring a TD with 3-4 mins left in the game qualified as "last minute super rare BS"...thats alot of time to be counting your winnings...of course he deleted my tweets when i pointed this out...wasnt even being a dick about it but hed rather spin it and make it seem like a horrible bad beat, which it absolutely wasnt...if anything, he should be mad at himself for betting a pretty shitty line on the packers game...sharps pounded the spread down to -7.5...if he was mindful of line movement he could have teased GB down to -1.5 and cashed his bet...laying damn near 10 points on the road in a divisional game is not the move...Comment -
Was in London when I was 17 with my friend and my cousin (my cousin was doing a semester abroad in Amsterdam so we went to visit him and took a side trip to London). Was there 2 nights and was young and stupid - got robbed by a bunch of bums the first night but they only got like 20 pounds from my cousin - next night two young dudes tried to mug us but it was after a long night of drinking and we had some South African chicks we had met so threw down in the middle of Piccadilly Circus - didn't lose anything and nobody got seriously hurt. Weird part was the cops could give two shits that all this was going on (the girls were screaming and shit like that). Cops were literally just standing there and watching. Didn't make a good impression on me. Liked Madrid and Barcelona a helluva lot more - better food, better women, better nightclubs, friendlier to NYer's, better weather. Had no issues in Amsterdam either - better "coffee" there.Last edited by Napes21; 11-25-14, 07:04 AM.Comment -
dammmnn that's bad luck son! two muggings two nights in a row!! Places like Madrid and Barcelona are more likely to have petty crime like thieving, bag snatching or whatever, while in London you could be in wrong place at wrong time and get head kicked in or stabbed! Although strangely I've actually never seen any trouble in London let alone be involved in anything and I'm there almost every other weekend. I've witnessed far more shiit in my former local town of Northampton...my best mate when I was 16 got stabbed for instance.
Amsterdam is by far the coolest and safest place thoComment -
I wrestled for 6 years throughout middle school and high school and was in peak form at the time. Pretty sure I could take on 99% of people in the UK 1-on-1 at least back then. Strength in numbers though. Forgot about the weirdest part of that whole thing - after the whole scrum was over the second night and everyone was separated one of the dudes said to me "No hard feelings right?" and tried to shake my hand. You just tried to fuckin rob me - FOH!Comment -
So a bit of rioting going on now and civil unrest.. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/25...jury-decision/ I may stay out the hood today myself..
A grand jury decision is good enough for me and I have no problem with what transpired.... People should see it the same way and not riot..Comment -
Or people can protest without rioting and looting. Who works at all these places they just burned down? Who goes to these places they just burnt down? Who lives around these places they burnt down? Protestors marched on three bridges in NYC last night and ended up shutting them down. Got the message across and was all over the news. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6216528.html
Why trash your own neighborhood and send a bunch of people to the unemployment line?Comment -
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I wouldn't call it a logical reaction, but is it really unexpected? Racism is systemic; they're a mostly-black neighbourhood being policed by a mostly-white police force operating under a system which has proven time and time again that it is willing to overlook the disgusting crimes committed by this very police force (whether or not that's the case in Ferguson, I won't comment on.)
Violence begets violence begets violence. The only way these people have of reacting is to senselessly riot, but there's nothing sensible about the situation in the first place.
This picture was taken in 1963. Responding to violence and oppression with acceptance and submissiveness does not change anything. If that weren't true, the American war of independence wouldn't have been necessary.
If I were a member of that community and felt as strongly as they did, if I felt as if I was living as a second-class citizen inside of a system that disfavours me, that allows its favoured people to murder my children without reproach, do you know what my ideal course of action would be? I'd try to form one of those "well-regulated militia" and simply gun down any man, police or no, who tried to use violence or oppression against my people. If black people took majority control of Ireland tomorrow and started treating white people analogously to how blacks are treated in the USA, my reaction would be the same.
Extreme situations lead to extreme reactions; both sides of this dichotomy have found themselves in pretty extreme situations.Last edited by MD; 11-25-14, 12:41 PM.Comment -
What point is that MD?
An officer did his job and someone died.. A jury made of people just like you and me looked over the evidence and found no crime.. Kid was caught shop lifting, got physical with the officer, then shot and killed... End of story.. If it was a black officer that shot a white kid doing the exact same thing I would feel no different..
Doesn't matter what color or race in this particular case as far as I see it.. Media is pumping it as a white PO on innocent black person killing, people of black race are reacting to it as such... Al Sharpton and other black activists are flaming the fire in the media...
Pretty black and white if you ask me MD.. No point missed..Comment
and you were in the tourist part of London aswell.