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Yes it was. Blacks are targeted because 99% got something going on.
If you're driving around in a big suburban w/ blacked out windows and big shiny 22's in an area that doesn't support
the income to buy that, you might be a drug dealer.
If you're standing on the street corner handing something to someone else, you might be a drug dealer.
If a whole bunch of people go in and out of your crib, you might be a drug dealer.
Just walking down the street w/ fancy clothes and glow in the dark bling, you might be a drug dealer.
Maybe stop looking like criminals and the cops will leave you alone. Here's a few hints, don't do your deals
or your drugs in your cars, have a valid drivers license and registration/ insurance, make sure all your
lights work and obey street laws. Oh, and maybe pull your fukking pants up!
Every time I got pulled over, I did something stupid or had a light out. That gives them cause to pull you over
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#whitelivesmatter# you happy? News flash though for real everybody wants "entitled advantages " check welfare stats how many people with their hands out for food stamps? Wic? You need to get out your comfort zone more travel a bit more it will give you a greater perspective on these things. Would you call a white 18-35 single mother waiting on her "earned " income tax credit collecting disability (she's not hurt she's working the system) and collecting child support from two different men for 3 kids so that's 2 cs payments coming in on top of the disability and food stamps ....that's a real person I know white as anybody on this forum and let me tell you she's not out of the norm. Are those considered entitled advantages or just if she was black?Comment -
Cop got shot overnight with his service weapon by an otherwise "unarmed black teen". 911 call about a prowler at 4am....cop turns into street and black teen tales of running wearing a backpack and dark clothes...officer catches up to him and draws pistol...doesn't shoot probly because in his mind he thinks...Ill give him the benefit of doubt, backpack probly means he's on his way to library for extra study....teen then attacks him, turns pistol into him and first two shots to the chest and shoulder of the cop. Officer in hospital after surgery now, suspect still on loose.
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Anyway.
Kraken, they have issues with Hillary too, if you didn't see:
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Good one bigtymer.
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Good one Ted.
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The founder of #BlackLivesMatter just got outed by his family...as white!!!
Shaun King is that Rachel Dolezal NAACP lunatic 2.0! He tried to say he's biracial but they didn't back him up...got a scholarship to Morehouse and tried to get an Oprah scholarship but got busted....so he's about as real as "hands up don't shoot"Comment -
More and more whites going great lengths to fight for the cause, they are indeed accepted into the fold, cant be mad at that.Comment -
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It's a civil rights issue and everyone should be active in fighting for equal rights and equal treatment, regardless of the issue. Many men stood up in the early 20th century and fought for womens rights.
However, the torch has to be carried by black leaders.This has to be a movement for black people, by black people. I happen to be married to a woman that's half black and my kids have african american ethnicity, so it's an important issue to me.
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This is a very interesting thought and statement. I won't argue your point, as I agree with it.The difference is people's lives matter more to us when we can relate to them; the more we can relate, the more they matter. A by-product of evolving from our ancestors who lived in small tribes no doubt, allowing them to dedicate the optimal amounts of concern to those who were more likely to share their genes (ensuring their genes were more likely to flourish). These days consciousness and our ability to voluntarily choose who and what we surround ourselves with has drastically changed the process, but our brains tendency is still to deal with the world in the same way.
Is that relevant though? Even if you somehow don't believe that people should prioritize the world according to what and who matters most to them, is caring about different things than the majority a crime worthy of using force against? 'Cause when you say something like "Black lives matter', most people are going to interpret this as "black lives matter more than others, since those others aren't receiving the attention this message is'. If you want all lives to matter, then simply say that, and stop treating lives differently based on race
It wasn't until recently however that I gave this much thought, it was just in a slightly different light. I think this also translates to politics and who we vote for. I think people tend to vote for the candidate that they can relate to most, or want to relate to most.
I've got a very close friend that is a financial advisor. He's around rich white people all day. He though, isn't rich. He makes significantly less than I do, however his lifestyle closely mirrors that of his clients. He's also votes republican across the board. I don't have any problems with how he votes, I honestly could care less, Oklahoma will always give it's electoral votes to the R candidate but he's voting against his own best interest in order to vote for the person that he relates to more closely. Or possibly in his case, the person he wants to relate to more.
To your last paragraph, #blacklivesmatter is only symbolic. I don't think it implies that black lives matter more, I think we live in a society where black lives really do matter less and the slogan should say #blacklivesmattertoComment -
another 7 shot, 3 dead in Rochester NY there will be no BlackLivesMatters demonstrations here
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And here we go again. A black 18 year old with a warrant pulls a gun on the cops and gets killed. And of course the locals are mad becasue the cops took a criminal off of the streets.
Dotson said four guns, including the handgun wielded by the dead suspect, and crack cocaine were recovered at or near the home, which last year yielded illegal guns during a police search.Comment -
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The whole "movement" is just a bunch of misfits and losers who found a way to get noticed and get on TV to be cool.
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Right here is why we see all of these "Protests" going on. This is the mentality of some of the people in these areas. "To me he didn't do no wrong, he just shot a cop"
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Excatky...claims to be black ...born a ginger to two white parents...rose through the ranks because he was the victim of the first hate crime conviction in Kentucky by "a bunch of redneck racists " that turns out was a one push fight between him and another white kid....got the Oprah scholarship on his race claims and now when calked out for bring a liar...says it's a white supremacist conspiracy against him....this is your black leadership folksComment -
You just know that dude has a record long as his arm...blames cops for him being caught stealing, driving drunk and whatever else. See that all the time.Comment -
Cheers kraky; I don't think anyone is born having everything figured out, most (including myself) figure it out as they go, learning and expanding their views...key is to seek out differing viewpoints and challenge your views as often as practical to make sure they hold up.
I'd almost always agree that voting (R) is against his interests, same as (D) is almost always a waste...not many in either party that have the right values. Country might be better off if people took voting more seriously and thought for themselves a bit more before voting.
Shrug, I know it's symbolic, and my sentiment that people matter is close in theory. The problem is a slogan calling out race is framing the problem in racial terms, which is the goal...but the problems can't be convincingly described as having race as a major cause. While the movement is trying to martyr criminals who fall in certain situations (black criminal shot by white cop) by claiming racism, the argument falls flat really quickly when no concern is shown for similar situations with different racial makeups, or when evidence comes out that the cop did nothing wrong and it doesn't change the movement's protests.Comment -
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#HumanLivesMatter
Police brutality is a major problem not just with blacks but with all races.
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Gunshard, I completely agree. But that is a separate issue in and of itself, police conduct. It does overlap with blacklivesmatter because black people, particularly black men, are disproportioantely affected.
Check out this Philly officer. Caught on tape of extortion and, using a homophobic slur. Forcing a guy he pulled over to buy raffle tickets to a local charity that supports the families of fallen officers.
Not a good time to be an officer. Everyone is recording every thing and people of all color are tired of being victims to their bullshit shenanigans. DA's prosecuting more with harsher sentences. Every cop right now is under a microscope and rightfully so. For years, proponents of LEO's said that the officers involved in misconduct were just bad apples, and they're the exception and not the rule.
Then video after video after video after video after video came out exposing the culture problem with police departments and it became evident that they weren't isolated events, that indeed there is a problem.
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