#BLACKLIVESMATTER

[Mountfield1985]

Agree completely.

That's why I find the completely false assumption of police being inherently racist and somehow total monsters when they don the uniform to be a red herring, and the focus should be on improving societal aspirations for minorities in America as a whole.

But that is too complex an issue to wave banners about and monetize apparently.

I agree there. Branding every police officer as inherently racist is as broad and wrong as branding every black person a criminal. Having said that, it is a pretty understandable reaction from communities who have every right to be angry.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

Nothing you mention above is disruptive or rioting, plus the first amendment protects the right to speech, expression, and peaceable assembly. Also, I'm no Russia expert but I understand they've used power mainly to oppress peoples, not to provide for their welfare, but maybe that's simply overlooked in U.S. History texts.

there's plenty of videos of them rioting

 

[SerenityNigh]

there's plenty of videos of them rioting

Equating the reasonable goals of a movement with the disruptive or violent actions of some participants is beyond silly, unless you agree that Thatcher was right in trying to shut down English football on account of hooliganism.

 

[bignev23]

If by "oppressed" you mean denied the means of progressing in society, I would put it to you that, for the most part, blacks in the US are their own worst enemies. There are plenty of examples that show that colour isn't a bar to advancement in the US, but the majority prefer to stay in their ghettoes, live on welfare and worship gang culture. And, if it's true that Black Lives Matter, why are 53% of pregnancies in the black community terminated? They overwhelmingly vote for the historical party of slavery - the Democrats - and support Obama who has gone out of his way to inflame race divisions instead of finding ways to reduce them.

The statistics are easily found on line. Google is your friend.

Oh my (to use your patronising tone). That is typical of your sort, to immediately resort to calling anyone who doesn't agree with your own blinkered view of the world a "bigot" and a ukip supporter. Open your eyes and do some research of your own instead of just regurgitating the views of the mainstream media. There's a reason why the establishment are backing the likes of BLM (did you know that George Soros has arranged a $130million fund with his billionaire mates to fund BLM?) They aren't doing that to make lives better for American blacks, they are doing it to entrench their own positions. So long as the blacks are kept in a state of permamant resentment against "the man" there is no chance of them becoming a power in their own country, in fact they would be better off as slaves. At the moment they are doing everything that Martin Luther King (ever heard of him Moomin?) preached against, and they are being kept down by their own leadership.

Some gold in there like and from a man with surprise surprise, a union jack in his Avatar.

 

[sageyefc]

It's the Mexicans I feel sorry for

 

[Ronnie lee]

Love a Burrito....

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Branding every police officer as inherently racist is as broad and wrong as branding every black person a criminal.

However, branding the police as inherently corrupt self-serving and a law unto themselves is not.

 

[jaycee]

Police deny claims of over reaction

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

It's the Mexicans I feel sorry for

Nah, build a wall.

 

[sageyefc]

Nah, build a wall.

Wow

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Wow

Not a Wow, a wall.

 

[sageyefc]

Not a Wow, a wall.

Make them build it, cheap labour

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Make them build it, cheap labour

They have to wear one of these while they're building it, and wrestle in their 10 minute lunch time.

 

[harry]

I agree there. Branding every police officer as inherently racist is as broad and wrong as branding every black person a criminal. Having said that, it is a pretty understandable reaction from communities who have every right to be angry.

Angry at who though?

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

Some gold in there like and from a man with surprise surprise, a union jack in his Avatar.

That "union jack" is actually a Red Ensign, with which anyone from Liverpool would be familiar. Apart from that I'm not sure what you're getting at.