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Apple Celebrates Black History Month With Limited-Edition Watch, Featured Apps and Books, and More
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I would rather show unity for my fellow human beings with my actions, versus an Apple band. I am old school.
White people get nothing special. Or straight people.
Neat. "all lives matter'
Neat. "all lives matter'
Y'all right wingers want to be queer and/or black so bad! It's very obvious!
What would a white/straight/all lives matter band be? Beige?
Seriously? You never heard of the term white privilege? White people (including me) are in the majority, we set the rules, we have set rules which provide us with better opportunities in housing, education, health care, jobs - you know - life. We have police forces which pull over minorities at an alarming rate, simply because they look different, we prosecute them unfairly where a white guy can get off for "affluenza", and a minority is incarcerated for long periods for the same offense, we allow police brutality, even murder, where we don't bother to hold the perp to any standard or accountability at all.
Yes, you are correct all lives matter, but it is not us in the majority that are treating all people fairly and equally, and the term Black Lives Matter is symbolic for the fact that we rally should be doing a better job of treating all lives better, fairer and equally
For the record, there is no data to support these claims.
Very true, but symbolism can help remind us of not who we are, but who we should be. I don't need to wave a flag to know I am American, but I do think I should treat all people with equality, respect, dignity, and that our country ought to too
only if you close your eyes - there is plenty of data
the data is in the disproportionate murder and brutality rates that black, brown and queer folks face 🙃
Like a lot of people during this pandemic I've been Tinder-swiping; and I've also traveled the world by setting different locations.
Nothing special; besides some of the profiles taking me into the negatives as far as my faith in humanity.
Then Tinder launched that whole "lots of genders"-things, and I couldn't help but play around with it… and the first thing that happened was that I got a warning about how basically I could get jailed/killed based on whatever settings I'd chosen.
So, yeah, I actually get a lot as a cishet person; like not getting hate/killed simply because I exists.
Like, I was aware about that before; but it's still a stark reminder that settings that to me was basically a joke/boredom is not just reality to other people, but it could also get them killed.
True, predominately Muslim and Communist countries its still illegal and death is a penalty.
America you get watch bands. GO USA
In America you get watch bands, and are statistically a ******** more likely to get shot by a cop panicking because they're afraid of black people.
As a black person survival rate in America drops even more if autistic, have a mental breakdown, are trans, or find yourself simply existing in the "wrong" neighbourhood.
Yet "black lives matters" triggers the white people, that much rather would talk about what's wrong in some muslim country.
Weird how you forgot to bring up your living situation/location the first thing you did when you broadly talked about muslim countries. Weird that.
Man, these comments did not disappoint!
Here is the thing‚ like any product, if you like it then buy it and if you don't then don't. You don't have to be anyone in particular to buy it or even like it. It's black history month so they did this. That's kind of it — any extra sauce you put on it is your own thing, but not indicative of anything other than they thought it would be something people may like and buy.
Personally, I like it because it reminds me of A Tribe Called Quest. It doesn't have to have any other connotations at all and those looking for fault need to find more productive ways to spend their time.
Here is the thing‚ like any product, if you like it then buy it and if you don't then don't. You don't have to be anyone in particular to buy it or even like it. It's black history month so they did this. That's kind of it — any extra sauce you put on it is your own thing, but not indicative of anything other than they thought it would be something people may like and buy.
Personally, I like it because it reminds me of A Tribe Called Quest. It doesn't have to have any other connotations at all and those looking for fault need to find more productive ways to spend their time.
Hey. There's so much data to support those claims that blanket denying it is inescapably racist. Don't do that.
Just because you believe otherwise doesn't make someone racist for looking at the data.
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I think the point they are making is that you are not actually looking at the data, or at least omitting the pertinent data.