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by: sillystring Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 5:11pm  
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Frankie Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 5:35pm  
Not as long as professional protestors can turn a buck from the organizations crying foul before getting the facts.
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Makk9 Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 5:56pm  
It appears to be a good excuse to loot the Walmart.
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sillystring Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 6:17pm  
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TxDeb Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 8:00pm  
It's getting ridicuolous. A riot is not a protest, destroying property is not a protest. Even if you have a good reason to protest a riot is not a protest. It makes me angry when people do things like this.
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CecilQ Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 9:28pm  
There's just no rational thought going on here. For the second time in slightly over a month, a black cop shoots a black suspect dead and "protesters" riot - - - before any facts are actually known.
 
This has nothing to do with black lives "mattering". This is a lame excuse for violent young blacks to have "fun" destroying and stealing, knowing there is little chance of their being punished.
 
The only recourse for authorities is mass arrests and prosecution. If we keep trying to mollify these anti-social miscreants without imposing condign punishment, the same scenario will play out every time a black dies at the hand of a cop.
 
It's up to black community leaders to end this. They could begin by playing down the "we understand how upset you are" angle and emphasizing that moral, conscientious blacks consider blacks who engage in these violent, criminal actions to be despicable - - - and a profound embarrassment to decent, law-abiding blacks (like themselves) everywhere.
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CompassionateRebel Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 9:36pm  
For the second time in slightly over a month,

@CecilQ : You mean in the last two days?
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Makk9 Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 10:19pm  
It's up to black community leaders to end this. They could begin by playing down the "we understand how upset you are" angle and emphasizing that moral, conscientious blacks consider blacks who engage in these violent, criminal actions to be despicable - - - and a profound embarrassment to decent, law-abiding blacks (like themselves) everywhere.

@CecilQ :
 
I agree Cecil, and from what I've seen lately there are indeed black leaders who feel this way, and more importantly, black non-leaders that feel this way. I am encouraged by the non-leaders I've seen lately, just regular people, speaking out against the anarchism. I look forward to the day when, as a society, we are unified as to what's normal and just. We're getting there I think, but there are forces working against that, in the media, and actually (shockingly) in the government. We need to keep blasting common sense whenever we can. What else can we do?
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CecilQ Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 7 years ago   Sep 21, '16 11:16pm  
For the second time in slightly over a month,
 
@CecilQ : You mean in the last two days?

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No, I was referring to the incidents wherein both the cop and the suspect were black (Milwaukee [Aug. 13] and Charlotte [Sept 20.]) The cop in the Tulsa shooting (Sept. 16) was a white female.
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sillystring Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 8:42am  
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CompassionateRebel Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 10:07am  
Without in any way condoning violent demonstrations and the destruction of private property, I like most, will defend the right to civil and peaceful protest by any group that seeks to redress discrimination and injustice. Law enforcement intervention is warranted in the occurring disturbances in SC. That being said, I also see the willingness of the dominant group (whites) to view black protestors as offensive and insulting and worthy of a far right, lock them up solutions. I also see that this law and order, get tough attitude is not universally applied specifically when the shoe is on the other foot. IMO this betrays a seed of racism latent in all of us. Perhaps the ravaging opioids epidemic running rampant in the white suburban communities may help illustrate my point. Since this dreadful calamity is happening in suburbia drug users are generally not treated as criminals arrested and locked up. These white folks are treated as victims’ worthy of medical treatment for their "substance abuse." There is no narrative that lays the blame on the lack of parental skills, broken homes, laziness, or any other moral condemnation. You find lawmakers tripping over each other to set aside their austerity mantra in other to fund drug treatments centers. Ask yourself why? Please don’t misunderstand, is the right thing to do, but completely discriminatory when only applicable to the dominant group.
Contrast the reaction to the drug epidemic in the suburbs to the actual treatment of the drug epidemic in mostly black and poor communities. Users are deemed criminals that deserved what they get for messing with illegal substances. Send in the cops, lock them up and shoot to kill if necessary; or not. The result, there are more incarcerated black men today than slaves during the slavery period. Some states spend more in incarceration than in education. One addict is white, a victim, worthy of medical treatment and society’s compassion and empathy. The other is black, a worthless criminal, deserving of the full wrath of the justice system. Could you see the disparity? Our black brothers and sisters do.
 
**In the news today, a right winger law professor encouraged drivers to “mowed down” protestors blocking the highway. Think about this suggestion for a moment. This would be an act of terrorism akin to the massacre in Nice, France. Shoot them up, mowed them down, the end result is the same.
It seems that the spirit of Chief Justice Taney is alive and well today as when he declared black men “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
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sstonex Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 11:05am  
I am as liberal and, hopefully, as non racist as I can possibly be. However, the argument that there are more blacks in jails may be true and some are probably there who ought not to be. However, looking at the evening news every night, the burglaries caught on camera, the shootings, etc., are vastly more black men. That is just an observation. Yes, and unfairness goes up the racial and income scale, for example, the Well's Fargo white guys who have stolen billions from us will probably walk free. As do most of the corporate criminals. That is despicable!
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CecilQ Active Indicator LED Icon 7
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 12:17pm  
@CompassionateRebel
 
Your citation of the disparity of treatment of opiod abusers and rioters is inapt. Whereas twenty years ago, the "lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" mentality regarding opioid abusers was present , experiece has shown this strategy to be counterproductive, not because white kids in the suburbs are becoming addicted but because huge numbers of minority kids in the city were developing crimnal rap sheets early on that made it forever difficult for them to obtain fruitful employment.
 
Had you proposed a comparison of the societal reaction to violent young whites rioting, burning and looting compared to its reaction to violent young blacks rioting, burning and looting, the comparison would have been appropriate. That, however, is impossible because the former behavior is nonexistent.
 
Putting any of this on whites is simply an attempt to absolve blacks (specifically young black rioters) of the base immorality of their behavior.
 
To reiterate, the violence will only end when blacks of character take action in their commuity to rein in the gratuitous self-indulgence of young, unscrupulous blacks (and stop enabling the latters' endless appetite for exculpating excuses.)
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CompassionateRebel Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 12:19pm  
That is despicable!

@sstonex :
And deplorable.
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CompassionateRebel Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 12:56pm  
Had you proposed a comparison of the societal reaction to violent young whites rioting, burning and looting compared to its reaction to violent young blacks rioting, burning and looting, the comparison would have been appropriate. That, however, is impossible because the former behavior is nonexistent.

@CecilQ :
 
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TxDeb Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 7 years ago   Sep 22, '16 5:09pm  
I have no problem with protests. I have a problem when you destroy and loot, that's not protesting. I don't understand the mentality of destroying property or violence towards other people.
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