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

This isn't new. Every time there is serious discussion on racism and police brutality the usual suspects bring up black on black crime and every crime committed by a black person against a white person. I guess it's supposed to prove that racism doesn't really exist or something.

 

What could go wrong.

 

Nothing. New York will become a paradise!

 

Using black on black crime as a get out of discourse free card is silly because systemic racism causes ack on black crime. When you live in segregated redlined neighborhoods (because of systemic racism), neighborhoods with massive poverty (because of systemic racism), most of the people you interact with are the same race as you (because segregation is a symptom of systemic racism). By a matter of course because of the poverty and desperation, you end up turning to crime against people of the same race as you (because of the systemic racism that put you in a redlined district with no infrastructure investment).

so yeah, go ahead and mention it but guess what, black on black crime is not a bug, it’s a feature of systemic racism and the pressure cooker it puts people in poverty in.

 

It’s a shell game; the moves most of the cuts to the education budget, so the education system in NYC gets worse so cops continue to get paid.

 

Amused but not surprised by some of the knee jerk responses...and denial...and claims.

"usual suspects"?...please...........No one said that racism doesn't exist....no one.

 

...terrible analogy.

 

I could agree more, I just wonder why isn't a serious effort to stop it, going on there? I'm on your side.

 

Seattle's Mayor cancels the CHOP (aka Summer Time Street Fair...relax!) after they had the audacity to start coming to HER neighborhood to protest.



What a bitch.

 

The new normal!

 

This should have been done several weeks back. It would have saved a few lives and business's.
Personally I dont look at this group as protesters for a genuine resolve to social injustice but rather a combination of anarchist, thiefs, and trouble makers. Their end result is sad.

 

I thought the CHOP was fucking awesome. They had a warlord and all that shit. Also funny because it happened in a really liberal part of the city and they got their shit fucked all up.

summer of love, baby!

 

Buddhists use the backward swastika.

 

The swastika symbol has been around for thousands of years and used by several cultures before the Nazis bastardized and perverted it.