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Afraid it does, from the Suffergete movement detonating the first terrorist bomb on UK mainland, to sending millions to their deaths in fighting facism in Europe. History is littered with wrongs making right.
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Afraid it does, from the Suffergete movement detonating the first terrorist bomb on UK mainland, to sending millions to their deaths in fighting facism in Europe. History is littered with wrongs making right.
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There should be racist attacks on people of Scottish/German descent who wear shredded wheat on their head.
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100% he will be doing what Bibi did and going on about “them” voting in droves to try and scare his base out.
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Rightwing vigilantes on armed patrol after fake rumours of antifa threat
Groups of men patrolling streets in parts of western US despite FBI saying no evidence of antifa involvement in violence linked to protests
Definitely here as well. The stats show it, as does the lived experience of people of colour.
It is this denial that ensures change only happens at a snail's pace.
Why are you so afraid of accepting that people of colour have it worse than white people? What are you protecting?
You take refuge in two unfunny guys who "have some fun with" structural inequalities and police-murcer because it supports your prejudice. Classy. I gave you too much credit when I said you had four neurons.
Very interesting read
Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old black boy, was stoned to death by white people in 1919 after he swam into what they deemed the wrong part of Lake Michigan.
In response, black people in Chicago rose up in protest, and white people attacked them. More than 500 people were injured and 38 were killed. Afterward, the city convened a commission to study the causes of the violence.
The commission found “systemic participation in mob violence by the police,” Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and author of the book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, told Vox. “When police officers had the choice to protect black people from white mob violence, they chose to either aid and abet white mobs or to disarm black people or to arrest them.”
In the process of compiling the report, white experts also testified that “the police are systematically engaging in racial bias when they’re targeting black suspects,” Muhammad said. The report “should have been the death of systemic police racism and discrimination in America.”
That was in 1922.
It’s almost 100 years later, and thousands of Americans are in the streets daily, protesting the same violence and racism that the Chicago commission documented. It may seem like nothing can change, but Muhammad said the last several weeks could be a wake-up call for some Americans to what policing in this country really means.
Part of that awakening, though, also involves understanding the history of police violence.Muhammad’s work focuses on systemic racism and criminal justice; The Condemnation of Blackness deals with the idea of black criminality, which he defines as the process by which “people are assigned the label of criminal, whether they are guilty or not.” That process has been a vicious cycle in American history, Muhammad explains, wherein black people were arrested to prevent them from exercising their rights, then deemed dangerous because of their high arrest rates, which deprived them of their rights even further.
Eugene Williams, a 17-year-old black boy, was stoned to death by white people in 1919 after he swam into what they deemed the wrong part of Lake Michigan.
In response, black people in Chicago rose up in protest, and white people attacked them. More than 500 people were injured and 38 were killed. Afterward, the city convened a commission to study the causes of the violence.
The commission found “systemic participation in mob violence by the police,” Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and author of the book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, told Vox. “When police officers had the choice to protect black people from white mob violence, they chose to either aid and abet white mobs or to disarm black people or to arrest them.”
In the process of compiling the report, white experts also testified that “the police are systematically engaging in racial bias when they’re targeting black suspects,” Muhammad said. The report “should have been the death of systemic police racism and discrimination in America.”
That was in 1922.
It’s almost 100 years later, and thousands of Americans are in the streets daily, protesting the same violence and racism that the Chicago commission documented. It may seem like nothing can change, but Muhammad said the last several weeks could be a wake-up call for some Americans to what policing in this country really means.
Part of that awakening, though, also involves understanding the history of police violence.Muhammad’s work focuses on systemic racism and criminal justice; The Condemnation of Blackness deals with the idea of black criminality, which he defines as the process by which “people are assigned the label of criminal, whether they are guilty or not.” That process has been a vicious cycle in American history, Muhammad explains, wherein black people were arrested to prevent them from exercising their rights, then deemed dangerous because of their high arrest rates, which deprived them of their rights even further.
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Every single one of the police officers who resigned in Buffalo can GTF, they seriously thing that suspending the two who cracked open a pensioners head is the resignating matter of the week? Pack of animals
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The UK has a class problem not a race problem imo - doesn't matter if your black, white or asian if you haven't money you are treated like lower class oinks.
Not saying racism doesnt go on in the UK - but its certainly not institutionalised anymore as it is in the US.
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Ah yes always assuming I live and die by two guys who bring a viewpoint of black conservatives. Classic verreauxi. Go watch your Don Lemon and Trevor Noah. Hear the good news and the only viewpoints you want to hear buddy
The stats dont back that up. And you are also ignoring what people of colour are saying.
You are completely in denial and are part of the problem we have with race in this country.
We do have a class problem, as well.
If you consider two chuckleheads claiming the riots are due to SJW a “viewpoint”...well, that’s about what I expect of you. And I have no idea who Don Lemon is; not sure why you keep banging that particular drum.
ForeverBlue92
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No offence mate but your opinion isnt any more valid than mine.
When you get in everyones face screaming they are racists because they dont agree with you im afraid you'll never get people on your side because in honestly you just come across as a bit of a tit.
When the mayor of London is Asian and key people like my woman Patel is in Government have much more opportunities and wealth than hundreds of thousands of white racist deniers on Universal Credit up and down the country your "racism is everywhere in this institutionalised country" kinda falls on its arse.
Go to the US or Russia or Italy or most other places and you'll see life isnt as bad as some make it out in the UK.
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