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

This thread is an embarrassment

 

Band??????

Why didn't I get word of this?????

And how do I get my hands on a disc?

And Always be you, and fuck anyone who cant accept that. This world can be so harsh. So happy to see you not conforming to what they want you to be and forcing them to accept who you are.

 

The Crystal Furs is the band I’m in (I play bass and mixed the songs); I’ve put a couple of our songs on the flavor of the month thread (Too Kind To Be Cruel and Expo67).

http://crystalfurs.bandcamp.com/

the CD will be available to pre-order tomorrow

thanks; it feels good to be me, even if it’s a constant battle getting all the rights a straight white man has... oddly relevant to this thread lol

 

I'm always, well, me. Thanks.

 

Am I the only one who finds it both laughable AND sad to see a bunch of white males sitting at home discussing whether racism is a real thing?

 

Nah, I posted vids of two uniquely different BLACK people dissing the whole systemic racism thing, then simply posed a question. You're free to be laughing sad.

 

I don't think it's just a bunch of white males discussing it...it's pretty much everyone saying what you just did except for two people....maris and ABM haven't gotten any support for questioning the existance of racism....and I think if anyone needs to work through this it's going to be white people..irregardless of gender

 

Sorry Crand, but no more laughable than a white woman sitting on a computer saying its sad a bunch of white people are on a computer discussing whether racism is real.

Also, I'm pretty sure not everyone in this thread who has commented is white.

 

That was obviously just a typo, he meant "bus." He was clearly referring to a Lakers player, LeBron James, who routinely throws teammates under the bus.

 

In a strange turn of events, @ABM is my parents, so much so I'm unsure I could detect the difference in worldview between them. This leads to a mixture of incredulity and utter disgust that I think most of you feel, but also a sense of compassion. I'll have you know, ABM that after every conversation I have with my parents, I have to decompress and unload the madness onto someone else. Your posts can have a similar effect. It's jarring...

My parents too have black friends from church, who would rather just be called black and think a father in the house might just do the trick. The call the protests riots. See the looters over the message. They guide their outlook on these conversations. If we start discussing race, my mother will cry and talk about all of god's children or how she loves everyone. However, they somehow do not feel offended by the literal demagogue in office. They/you are what Trump calls the "silent majority." Not racist? Things just don't line up.

Let me illustrate just how off things can be. My mother said something, like you have, about race relations being worse after Obama (that statement alone! for the love of christ!). Soon we were talking about how the south seethed at having a black president. My father said southerners (which they are) often called him derogatory things. Like openly. My mother says she didn't even think of him as black, "I mean, everyone calls him black. But he is white too. Why don't people call him white? Why is it always black?"

Now, wow. She is from the south and yet doesn't see how fucked it has been for blacks over the years? Between slavery and Jim Crow and on and on and on. There are categories describing to what degree black people are, words that mean 1/4 black or 3/4 black 1/4 white and so forth. Look it up. And there is of course the "one-drop rule." A single drop of black blood and you are a second-class citizen! And she is asking "Why don't people call him white"? The disconnect is incredible. It's embarrassing. And no amount of discussion has made a dent.

Willful ignorance? Repressed reality? I have no idea what's going on with people with your worldview, but I do know it's hard not to give up on you.

 

Just curious......but how many “conversations” did St. Paul have on the road to Damascus and his “awakening”? I’d have to go back and read my Bible but I don’t remember much of any conversation other than God saying, “How do you like them apples?” when he knocked Paul off his horse and opened his eyes. Maybe you need a trip to Damascus......

 

I've always admired Morgan Freemen..born in the 30's, growing up very poor in the South. He overcame many obstacles.....including racism. I'm sure he is a hero to many.

Over the years, he's had a few things to say on the issue. There was this:

https://www.quora.com/Morgan-Freema...-black-man-and-white-man-Would-it-really-help

More recently, there was this...and I applaud the man for taking this approach from a leadership position. Thank you, Morgan!!

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/06/09/morgan-freeman-black-lives-matter-social-media-campaign/

I've posted this video in here before, so there's this side of him. You could say, sure, he's 1%er, living life large, and all that. But, remember, this is a man who overcame. Let me repeat...OVERCAME his obstacles, and has now succeeded far beyond what all of us in here could only imagine to accomplish.

 

It's all good. You have a lot of work to do, my friend.

 

Worse? What was worse? Things have never been worse than right now. We have Covid and racism and no leadership and unemployment. Worse under Obama?

 

Is there a point here? Is this showing systemic racism or the lack of? Or you just like posting videos of black people?