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As a person who is clean-cut, with no charges, not convictions, a squeaky-clean record, solid, long-term employment for decades and is generally polite in all my interactions, I have had my hands in cuffs and in a squad car more times than I can count. Usually, because I was in too nice of a car, in an area I was unexpected to be in, or the size of the group I was in was "unsettling". Every time I was let go — warned about something I was never doing — and expected just understand that my time and my privacy was immaterial to a flex of power... often just hoping to trip us up.
Not all cops do this — but even the "good" ones stay silent when their bothers over-reach. We need them to do better, and they need to be held accountable for when they come up short. We rely on them for order, protection, and maintaining the peace and therefor must be held to a higher, if not more equal, standard.
Something like this?
You really can get pulled over for driving while black, federal statistics show
Black drivers are 31 percent more likely to be pulled over than white ones.
www.washingtonpost.com
Exactly.
But 8,000,000 Jehovah's Witnesses do not salute the flag.
Nor do 200,000 Ahmish.
One man takes a knee and the world comes to an end.
Maybe if people in power would have taken the stance seriously America wouldn't be on fire now.
The NFL makes a statement, about equality that is so hypocritical it isn't even funny.
Colin asked about equal treatment and he was banned.
The NFL said everything they needed to say when he was banned from the league.
F the NFL and I'll never watch another game.
Freedom was never given. It is always taken at gunpoint.
Those in power will never give it up unless forced.
In my view, all these things such as BLM, where they are focusing your attention to specific groups of people just further creates a divide between race and religions - if there was an all lives matter, this would mean that we are unison and strong together...
All you need to do is research and educate yourself: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a27075028/black-lives-matter-explained/
As we saw in Dallas BLM is not racist. They are willing to kill cops of every race.
You and I have the same experience.
Like I said
I have never been arrested.
Multiple degrees in engineering.
Always employed and clean cut.
But I have been in cuffs on the side of the road more times than I can remember and never received a ticket for any time I was in cuffs.
Every time a cop pulls behind me my pulse races and I get sweaty.
Not because I've done anything wrong, but because I know there is a high probability that I might end up on the ground or in the back of the car in cuffs for nothing.
I suffer from PTSD when it comes to cops.
My journey with being stopped for nothing started at 12 or 13 walking in a white neighborhood where I lived.
They took me home because they thought I was lying about my address.
I don't have a lot of pleasant experiences with cops.
So someone wears a t-shirt that says BLM and kills a cop and everyone is bad. Okay.
More apologists....
They beat him in the car, then pulled him out onto the ground while still restrained for much longer then they are trained to do. This is not speculation, as there is footage of the events.
He's trained to know better — he chose not to act accordingly. Police need to be held to a higher standard if they are the enforcers of justice.
For the last time — he did not resist arrest. that's a lazy and unsubstantiated claim.
What is absurd is the mental gymnastics needed to justify this.
Everything I said I just backed up. Feel free to prove me wrong, though I know I won't get a response.
This is kinda what I’m talking about.
We should be able to discuss things without attacking the other side once you start attacking people, they will respond defensively, which will turn into more attacks, then round and round you go.
BTW, as far as I’m concerned, you and I are having a discussion as equals. I’ve never treated anyone else as lesser based on race.
Update your history — MLK was the poster child for civil disobedience. He would be kicked and pepper-sprayed if he were alive today, as many many protesters who have been quietly and civilly sitting in have been beaten, kicked, trampled and shot with rubber bullets.
Many of these bad actors have nothing to do with the movement at all. You cannot keep in check what you are not apart of.
I'm not even in the States lol and i'm getting this propaganda while i'm paying for a paid service??
Geez and don't get me wrong i'm against racism, i hate be called "guero" by some "brownies" here. Specially by the garbabe man lol. Should i fight them or that's a compliment?.
and what about blacking the Apple Store and Apple Music Store too? oh no... that's money for Apple....$$ double moralists.
Geez and don't get me wrong i'm against racism, i hate be called "guero" by some "brownies" here. Specially by the garbabe man lol. Should i fight them or that's a compliment?.
and what about blacking the Apple Store and Apple Music Store too? oh no... that's money for Apple....$$ double moralists.
Collin has nothing to do with this, he got paid millions to play football. Just like many don’t need or want Hollywood getting in their lives. Your roles are to entertain and do something you love. Many careers have been ruined by trying to do something they aren’t cut out to do.
MLK has one mission. Collin didn’t go into the NFL to start a movement. But at least he can own his path forward. That’s accountability.
And many others have been shot for their causes. Bad actors exist. It’s our job to single those bad actors out, not make blanket assumptions. To do that is short sighted and naive.
I raise my son to not see color but character. That’s what defines each of us. Choose wisely.
The city of Dallas fought hard to not have the body cam footage of Timpa's death released. His death was ruled as a drug overdose (the same diagnosis, by the way, that the Minneapolis county examiner tried to give to Floyd). Coincidence, or a diagnosis used as a convenient coverup? You decide. So yes, the city tried to keep it quiet, and the cops were essentially let off the hook for a death that shouldn't have happened.
Unfortunately, injustice is also colorblind, my friend.
Like Hitler tried to do the Jews? The similarities are astounding...
It's funny, when certain people say that, they're patriotic. When others say it, it is taken as a threat.
Urban Dictionary: Guero
Guero: Guero is [not to be confused with] gringo. This term isn't as [racialized] as the other [definitions] would lead one to believe. It is a descriptive...
www.urbandictionary.com
Interesting, learned something new today.
When I went to Peru I got called gringo by a lot of people there (they didn't see it as racist (I think)) and it didn't bother me.
ALL lives matter misses the nuance that is real life. There is a time for a general message and a time to be specific. This is a nuanced issue, so a general statement misses the point. The spirit is appreciated but undermines the reality is that from the police's perspective there isn't a parity to galvanize yet.
My Trump? You're assuming things about me and you're the one calling for exterminating people like flies... Uh... really?
You know what makes racists bad? They assume things (usually negative) about people. And what did you just do? You're in the same boat.
