OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

I think institutional racism among the police is THE problem when it comes to police disproportionately brutalizing people of color, which is where these protests began. I don't think the "defund" people have even implied that police reform fixes everything about racism or conflict in communities, minority or otherwise. Police brutality sparked the protests and the first point of anger was police brutality aimed disproportionately at black people, and other people of color. The second impulse was "how do we ratchet down the violence in general" and that's what led to the defund movement. And the defund movement doesn't put all the blame on police--the idea behind defund is exactly what you're saying: the problems of violence in communities are greater than just systemic racism and corruption within the police departments. We put too much on police, requiring them to address issues they're not trained for and we use police as a solution after the fact, rather than addressing underlying problems.

 

what nationalistic bubble are you looking at racial profiling through anyway? what you and maris use to justify racism is actually classism and yes...minorities live in ghettos...all over the world...not just here...nationalistic sabre rattling has nothing to do with racism and addressing the disenfranchised among us....Would you have this conversation with a black person? Yeah...didn't think so..

 

No, I'm not. Nonetheless, his messages/movements stemmed from those of peace. I'm all about giving peace a chance. Not destruction and the like.

 

He couldn't "mandate" stuff--he wasn't in charge. Was he demanding government action? Yes. He was a huge proponent of the Civil Rights Act and it would never have happened without his constant pushing for it and driving up support for it. Martin Luther King Jr. was a tireless advocate of government's role in protecting vulnerable minorities and a great example of how to use advocacy to push for top-down change.

 

You have no idea how many Black friends I have. Oh, and yes, I have.

 

I think that easy changes are seldom right changes. The devil is going to be in the details with respect to "defunding" proposals.

 

I have a pretty good idea you don't breach this subject with them.....would you tell Damian Lillard what you feel about racial profiling? I know Maris wouldn't

 

As stated elsewhere, I'm all about the peace aspect. Even George Floyd's brother pleaded for that.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I loved that man.

 

as a Christian did you love the white man who killed him too? I promise you MLK would take you to task for this thread if he were alive to do it....the vast majority of African americans would as they should

 

Great, then you lemme know who's in charge of the system, and I'll let them know my thoughts. I guess we start with the last handful of Presidents. They've all had their stabs at this.

 

You literally just described gentrification

 

thank you

 

I don't disagree, however defunding is still vague. It differs from state to state as to the meaning and implementation of what they want.

Its very fuzzy right now. So i'm not sure with that fuzziness, we can properly judge defunding as being good or bad.

It all depends on what will happen in the defunding process. Where is the money going?

I do think that it is a great start, but if not fully followed through with, the devils will indeed pop up.

 

This is the most epic post of my 5 years at SC2! Bingo, bango, bongo. 100% pure truth. Sorry @ABM but you just got completely owned (no parallel to slavery intended). An absolutely beautiful response, @SportsAndWhine!