When people say BLM, they are't trying to position black lives above everyone elses', they're demanding that black lives are given equal value by police, and the media, and the government. Because currently they aren't.
Responding to BLM with All Lives Matter is like a fat fuck complaining that people campaign to give food to starving children in Africa, because "All people get hungry".
You ain't starving. If you're white, you don't need to protest about your life mattering because the entire world already treats you like it does.
This is incredibly obvious to 90% of people immediately, and most of the other 10% pick it up within a few minutes of reading the coverage of the protest.
So now, 13 days into this wave of protests, an about 8 years into the BLM movement, you should know that the majority of people wailing on about "all lives matter" are racists who are trying to delegitimise or derail the movement.
So don't throw yourself in with them. It's not a crowd to be associated with.
What families and what should we do about it?
Plenty of people disagree with me on here on a daily basis. It’s absolutely fine, of course. You must’ve noticed that no-one seems to be agreeing with you on this though? Don’t know if you’re just woefully out of touch with public sentiment, or if you’re just being contrary for the sake of it, but either way I maintain that it’s a pretty odd take.
Do you honestly think you will ever see a white yank officer murder a white man in the street whilst looking like he was thinking about what to have for tea and allowed by 2/3 other officers,being filmed doing it?
When people say BLM, they are't trying to position black lives above everyone elses', they're demanding that black lives are given equal value by police, and the media, and the government. Because currently they aren't.
Responding to BLM with All Lives Matter is like a fat fuck complaining that people campaign to give food to starving children in Africa, because "All people get hungry".
You ain't starving. If you're white, you don't need to protest about your life mattering because the entire world already treats you like it does.
No one told women's suffrage movement that them saying "give women the vote" was sexist because everyone should vote. Because you'd need to be an idiot to say it.
This is incredibly obvious to 90% of people immediately, and most of the other 10% pick it up within a few minutes of reading the coverage of the protest.
So now, 13 days into this wave of protests, and about 8 years into the BLM movement, you should know that the majority of people wailing on about "all lives matter" are racists who are trying to delegitimise or derail the movement.
So don't throw yourself in with them. It's not a crowd to be associated with.
No he wouldn't Because if he had tried that on a white man his career would have been over,the police aren't used to getting charged for what the do to black people over there,his arrogance at doing it whilst being filmed was because he thought nobody would care,we he got that wrongIm fully aware of what the campaign stands for and means. I don’t need to be schooled in it. But thanks anyway.
I’ll go back to what I said. All lives matter.
This whole 20 page debate I have been engaged in has been about a man who was killed because he ‘was black’.
All I am trying to do is remove that particular point by putting emphasis on all lives matter, and that this murder wasn’t race related. The corrupt cop would have killed him if he was white.
Im fully aware of what the campaign stands for and means. I don’t need to be schooled in it. But thanks anyway.
I’ll go back to what I said. All lives matter.
This whole 20 page debate I have been engaged in has been about a man who was killed because he ‘was black’.
All I am trying to do is remove that particular point by putting emphasis on all lives matter, and that this murder wasn’t race related. The corrupt cop would have killed him if he was white.
You're repeating a phrase only used by racists who want to obfuscate the protests, while also peddling a lie, that the murder was not race related because the 2 knew each other.
That's not true.
George Floyd worked security inside a club about 10 times. A couple of those shifts overlapped with when Chauvin would sit outside the club in his police car. The owner of the club says the shifts overlapped but she didn't know if they'd met. No one from El Nuevo Rodeo has come forward to say they knew each other.
Fair enough. You have your take. Not getting into another war on this one.
I dunno, throwing it in the river has probably brought more attention to the horrors of slavery than it sitting in some museum in Bristol would (I don't know if Bristol even has a museum tbh). You never know, it might be an incident that ends up in the history books.I agree with everything you’ve said but it’s worth just saying that the statue was erected due to him building hospitals with his money and mass charity work.
He was actually considered a big philanthropist at the time, which shows how fucked up societal norms and views were during the slave trade.
None of that work excuses his business, I would say he’s definitely a deeply immoral human figure but it’s important to understand the whole story with him.
The statue shouldn’t be there for such a man today but throwing it in a river isn’t helpful, stick it in a museum and educate visitors on how bad slavery was.
Nobody.
All lives matter. This isn’t black vs white.
I am sorry but I don't agree with you on this one,has there been any cases like this? Honest question due to my shit memoryIn America Karen it is highly likely yes.
No he wouldn't Because if he had tried that on a white man his career would have been over,the police aren't used to getting charged for what the do to black people over there,his arrogance at doing it whilst being filmed was because he thought nobody would care,we he got that wrong
By refusing to social distance and increasing the spread of Covid across the country and putting innocent and vulnerable people's lives at risk, they've done exactly what you say they aren't doing.
You’re the one who said “All lives matter, not just black ones.”
So if it’s so obvious, and no one is saying black lives matter more than white lives, why did you post it? It’s like posting “City wear sky blue at home.” Or “1 + 1 = 2.” What’s the value add? Where’s the opinion? Why did you post it?
It's not my take. It's the fucking facts without you taking massive liberties in assuming things to fit a narrative where you can ignore the racial motivations.
I fear you have somewhat missed the point I was trying to articulate.