I currently live in Beijing. I moved here from SLC one year ago. I'll move back to SLC in 3 years most likely.
Please read this! SLC Dunk- Black Lives Matter
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I currently live in Beijing. I moved here from SLC one year ago. I'll move back to SLC in 3 years most likely.
Utesnjazz
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Right because I don’t wear the hat. But it does happen to other people who do wear the Maga hats. People get assaulted just for wearing Maga hats. IE there is racism towards white people in a real way.
Or people just hate people they perceive as racist, which is pretty easy to draw from wearing that hat.
That's not racism, lol.
You're trying to make up some thing to pretend to be a victim just to lesson real issues to people.
I heard a statistic today that for every black man killed by police, nearly 1,000 are murdered by other black men. I've also read that homicide is the 4th leading cause of death for black males in America.
Has the Black Lives Matter movement spoken much about violent crime within urban black communities?
In addition to exposing and protesting police brutality, what exactly is the BLM movement trying to achieve?
Has the Black Lives Matter movement spoken much about violent crime within urban black communities?
In addition to exposing and protesting police brutality, what exactly is the BLM movement trying to achieve?
Murders are being punished when caught. This is a completely different issue that has a system in place and is trending towards the better. Police who murder and assault people are getting away with it. I would suggest going to the black lives matter website if you want to read what they stand for and are doing.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Do they have to? It’s a specific movement against policing methods. I’m sure once some gains there are made they can look at other areas.
Nothing so arrogant, and racist, as a bunch of white people sitting around saying “well, those Black people have internal societal issues that plague most poverty-bound cultures, so they have no right to stand up and complain about police killing them every now and then”.
Let me guess, your also in the camp of “If they had not committed the crime they wouldn’t have this issue to start with?”
I’m white, republican, and live in Texas. I’m also tired of hearing these complete BS excuses. You know what else a LOT of black people so? Serve in our military. When I was in Iraq, I was embedded with an Army unit. Almost 70% black. My greatest mentors in the military (Colonels and Generals), were black.
I had a black kid from our ward house-sit for us once while we were on vacation. He made me call every neighbor AND have an HOA send out a notice 2 weeks prior, because he was afraid of someone calling the police on him and him getting killed.
This is about great kids who are, literally, afraid to live the same way that ANY of our kids can live.
When you're quoting wingnut-welfare recipients to support positions that say racism does not need to be fought, what do you think that says about you?
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The hat doesn't have anything to do with your skin color though. A black guy wearing a maga hat would get hated on. So would a white guy. So would a Mexican. And so on.
You get hated on for wearing a maga hat because that shows that you support a giant douchebag, not because of your race. Can't believe I had to explain that one.
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1) It's not racism to get a response for be provocative.
2) A lot less than happens to black people who where symbols of black liberation in white meighborhoods.
Institutional raciam has been tested, measured, and examined about as thoroughly on a scientific basis as any social phenomenon can be. To deny it is like denying the earth is round.
How many stories can you come up with of people actually getting beaten for wearing a hat? 1/5 the number of police teargassing peaceful protesters? 1/10th?
Joe Bagadonuts
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Wow! Spectacular! Thanks for sharing. It is incredibly reassuring to hear that some people still get it. I'm certain that the usual suspects are going to attack this piece. I will be interested to see where they believe the weaknesses are. On first read, I don't see them at all.