Black Lives Matter • Page 3

Some more resources and reading I've come across today:

• You can download these books about police violence for free right now.
  
• A history lesson detailing the long history of oppression and racial violence in America
• George Floyd Death: Minneapolis Police Union Blocked Reform
  
• What do we tell the children? — steve locke
• 8 Can't Wait
• The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes

 

And here we see the problem: you don't care about people other than yourself

 

But the looters speak for all protesters? Oh okay. If you’re placing them together you’re not as educated as you think you are.

 

I can see you trying.

I know this audience is passionate. Know that it comes from a place of defending the “other,” which is basically a cornerstone of the scene. I would hope you know that by now, but you may not. Either way, consider this information.

Let’s use your building/livelihood analogy: on one hand, you have a building. On the other, you have a human life. One of them will be destroyed. Which one do you pick?

 

You are a good person.

 

Did you ask yourself why "NOTHING ever changes"? There's an irony that you seem to be missing by saying that.

So you're coming into a thread, complainining about people not educating you, but then you admit that you don't want to engage with the material provided for you (despite you asking! that's disrespectful). Come on, what kind of weird mental gymnastic is that?

What's your goal? Because now it feels like you were just here to stir shit and then accuse people of calling you out wrongly... when you're the one showing an inability to listen to the other side.

If you're willing to continue the discussion, you have to accept that your views will be challenged.

 

When the government basically declares that property means more than black lives, the only way to gain attention is to damage that property. Sort of like tossing a lot of very expensive tea into a harbor to protest an unfair tax, you know, just a hypothetical.

 

There is also far less looting, property damage being done in comparison to the number of protesters, and those actually honoring George Floyd and others. I'd love to see a figure (impossible) of how many individuals are looting vs. those marching peacefully in the streets. Probably 98:2. But of course the media is going to cover what's most controversial and entertaining, and people will tune into a burning building over a person holding a sign every day of the week.

 

There is a lot of good goin on in Idaho right now. Proud of how my state is reacting...totally unexpected:

Hailey police chief, officers kneel in solidarity with protestors

 

ding ding ding ding

 

Racism is nowhere near as bad as the media makes it out to be. I have a friend that is a cop and he told me that he gets idiot white people and idiot black people all depends on how you treat the officer that you're interacting with.

 

Lmfao. Why would you post this ...

 

nice

 

My favorite part: If you treat them “nice,” nbd, but on a bad night you just might get murdered for being an “idiot” — the good part of the dumb post is you die from a dip shit cop ego who becomes an executioner and that’s the best case scenario!!!!!

 

Oh, cool, well I guess that you having a cop friend settles it then, thanks a lot!

 

is this comedy

 

Is this something you’d personally tell a black person? That they are being over dramatic and their experiences really aren’t that bad? If so, you are an absolute shit stain.

 

From what I'm hearing this money goes to the democratic party. That seems pretty misleading.

 

what money

 

You haven't seen this? When click the donate tab on the BLM site it goes to some democratic website. By law they have to disclose where the money goes.. 120M to Bernie campaign
115M to Biden and so on
It's pretty crazy.

 

Man, all you gotta do is fucking google the ridiculous conspiracy theories you hear about.

Donations to Black Lives Matter Group Don't Go to DNC

 

No. BLM uses the ActBlue platform to process charitable donations. It does not funnel donations to the DNC.

Edit: Yea, see the above link. As a rule of thumb, fact check shit you see floating around social media.