In a shocking turn of events, Monica Foy, the bitch that belittled the father of two police officers death, has been arrested. She had an outstanding arrest warrant for assault. Made my whole day
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...ives-matter/EPjIfUd95BeSHyXGthJ9KM/story.html Black Lives Matter occupies an important space THE MEME “All Lives Matter” is yet another effort to undermine legitimate calls to end antiblack police practices that characterize far too many interactions between police and citizens of color. Covered with a veneer of neutral and inclusive language, this mantra cleverly hides an intent to silence those who insist that police treat black citizens justly. Perhaps the cry “All Lives Matter’’ would register as genuine if police unions expressed the same opprobrium when a fellow officer kills a person of color as they do when an officer is killed. But this rarely happens. Instead, police unions tend either to support or remain deafeningly silent when their own misbehave. Of course, any killing of an innocent person should offend our collective moral sensibilities. All lives, self-evidently, matter. That is not the point. The point is that this country has been silent for decades, as citizens of color have been killed by those sworn to protect and serve. The Black Lives Matter movement is an attempt to shed light on a problem that has existed in the shadows. Many specious arguments have been advanced to undermine the movement. Foremost is that blacks kill other blacks at a significantly higher clip than police kill blacks. This is true. But those who advance this argument elide a critical distinction between the two. There is something far more disconcerting about a police officer killing an innocent, as compared to other killings. Criminals do bad things. That’s why we arrest, prosecute, jail, and, sometimes, execute them. Police officers, on the other hand, are not supposed to be criminals. They are agents of the state, duty-bound to safeguard. And when the mechanisms of government work to protect those officers who misbehave, by failing to prosecute or convict, the actions of such officers are viewed as state-sanctioned killings of innocent citizens of color. No matter how infrequently that may occur, it shocks us and weakens our trust in government. Besides, frequency of occurrence has never been the measure of the country’s outrage. Americans kill exponentially more Americans than foreign terrorists do, but we don’t silence the antiterror lobby. The same logic holds for Black Lives Matter. They are not a group of mathematicians resolute on apportioning their protests to align with the frequency of criminality in America. Instead, the aim is to promote police accountability in a culture where it has been sorely lacking. Perhaps the most insidious assault on Black Lives Matter is that the protests have somehow caused violence against police. That argument is as silly as suggesting that the way a woman dresses causes her rape. The only thing Black Lives Matter has caused is a national conversation about police accountability. Trying to create a causal relationship between the indefensible police shootings in Houston and Fox Lake, Ill., and Black Lives Matters is an unjustified attempt to politicize those tragedies. Finally, the claim that the black community ignores black-on-black crime shows a remarkable ignorance to intrarace discussions. Go to any black church, civic organization, or school, and hear pleas to stop the violence. Turn on the television and see a gross overrepresentation of black-on-black crime. This issue is fully explored in the media, and the demographic makeup of prisons shows that the public takes it seriously. What has not been taken seriously is the issue of police accountability and illegal behavior in communities of color. That’s the important space Black Lives Matter occupies. It does the important work of stressing that black lives, also, matter. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he is the faculty director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and the Harvard Trial Advocacy Workshop.
The confederate flag has been seen as a symbol of bigotry and racism and the south's fight to maintain slavery. So it was taken down. The US flag, stars and stripes, flew over a century of slavery and then another century-plus of Jim Crow. I have no beef with black people wiping their ass with the flag. They have a perfectly valid point and every constitutional right to do so. As I see it, we have many millions of people here who were dragged from their ancestral home in chains, and against their will, to be slaves here. These people cannot trace their heritage back very far because their families were broken up and sold off. Unlike Irish or other immigrant groups who may have faced some initial resistance upon coming here, our black brothers and sisters did not come here by choice, and every obstacle possible to their integration into the fabric of the nation has been put in their way. White people early on who worked for civil rights for black people were lynched, but many many more black people were lynched all along, "to keep them in their place" even as late as the 1980s. Lynchings in the northern states, california, and so on. Not just the slaveholding south. When black people did assimilate somewhat and achieve success, white people (including the police) would burn down their successful businesses and homes. See "Black Wall Street." When Harold Washington ran for public office as a Democrat in the Democratic Party Machine city of Chicago, white Democrats, in huge numbers voted for the republican to make it the closest mayoral race in decades. The city of Chicago, a modern Northern Democratic Party Machine city, paid tens of $millions in civil penalties because the police routinely brought black men into the stations and beat them with rubber hoses, burned them on radiators, and other forms of torture. When black people moved into neighborhoods, the white people moved to the suburbs. The neighborhoods were deprived of economic opportunity, ended up being a way to effect concentration camps, had education funding diverted, and even were zoned for toxic waste dumps. Many of these sins against our fellow man were not just committed by people hundreds of years ago that we can somehow claim we have nothing to do with anymore. Yeah, "all lives matter" but "black lives matter" has a significance beyond police brutality and overzealous police shooting people.
Black Militant groups like the Black Panthers and extreme Muslim groups have infiltrated BLM. Only a matter of time and we will see the proof. What started out as a peaceful protesting group will evolve into a larger, more unified, militant group that promotes vial murders, death to white people, death to cops, and racial violence. The Black Panthers and Muslim militants are already jumping on the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you honestly believe the peaceful protestors will be able to control them? I doubt it.
There's only a handful of right wing race bating news outlets making those claims, Mags. This is typical of the photos of mass rallies of BLM. There's not one poster, billboard, sign, etc., encouraging or condoning violence toward police.
As I've said, the origination of the group is designed for peaceful protest, but there are those that use the nationwide attention and infiltrate to promote violence. Until I see the group leaders renounce any affiliation of these radical groups, I will not condone or respect this group.
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/a-...t-black-lives-matter-to-avenge-deputys-death/ Just wow. Fox News and Breitbart are inciting violence against black people. I don't see then denouncing that sort of thing.
As a white man, I would like to take this opportunity to publicly denounce Nathan Ener and all the violence he promotes, lest I be lumped in with him and his special version of insanity.
Who is going to lump you in with that? Just because you don't denounce someone doesn't mean you support them. That really is some Nazi Germany shit. "If you don't denounce Jews you must be for them!" What about the next person who says something racist and stupid? You going to denounce them? When does it stop? Guilt by association? Guilt by non-denouncement?
Sorry, forgot to use the green font. I was actually mocking mags and his position on BLM. Settle down, dog.
