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originally posted by: iTruthSeeker
originally posted by: 3danimator2014
What you guys are bafflingly failling to understand is that the BLM movement is about POLICE killing black people. Which they do, in much higher numbers than they kill white people. They also stop and harass black people a lot more too. NOBODY should be killed by police unless they were an immediate threat to said police's life. This is the point.
So, when you start ops like this with the intention of subtlely mocking BLM, you just make yourselves look ignorant.
i cannot understand how you guys dont get that this is about black people being killed by police. And FYI, there are multiple protest groups protesting black on black violence.
Seriously. Ops like this are why you guys get called racist and ignorant. The tone is clear and frankly, the op is very sad.
I'm not calling you racist, i'm just saying i can see why some might. But i dont think much of the intention of this thread.
More white people are killed every year by the Police. Also. Police patrol areas with the most crime (duh?). These tend to be run down minority neighborhoods. So of course there is going to be more interaction with the people in these communities, because that is where the most crime is happening.
Thomas said the trigger was sensitive and 'it started going crazy and kept going off until it was empty'
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: luthier
Don't feed me that. I taught inner city and I know the kids have issues, but I also know that pumping up the schools isn't going to help without addressing the root causes of those other issues you talk about.
Blacks during the Jim Crow era had crappy schools, easily as bad or worse than what they have in the inner city now. Kids in second and third world countries are the same way. And somehow, they managed and still manage to get better basic educations than a lot of the kids in the inner cities.
It's not solely a facilities issue.
Until those other cultural issues are addressed too. Simply building a shiny new school won't begin to solve the problem.
originally posted by: TheBulk
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: thinline
Thats rediculous you just need to ve a critical thinker.
Obviously black on black crime is also an issue. The black community as well is aware of it. It just isn't part of the national discussion because foe instance they need to make sides like you have bought into with the op.
Exactly. It needs to b e because it's a critical reason why black people are getting shot by police int he first place. A ridiculously high percentage of black people (mostly men/teens) are committing violent crime.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
This one set my BS alert off:
Thomas said the trigger was sensitive and 'it started going crazy and kept going off until it was empty'
It's just so hard to take your finger off that trigger, huh?
Murder, 2nd degree, criminal negligence and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
And a dunce cap to go with his orange jumpsuit.
originally posted by: Hazardous1408
Instead of going after legitimate Gun Ownership the Government need to work out how to stop illegal gun running into urban areas.
Find out where these fire arms are coming from.
& put a stop to it.
originally posted by: TheTory
I'm curious, why do we make it about race just like BLM does?
Unlike BLM, who makes vast sweeping generalizations, it seems prudent to focus on individual cases rather than obscene categories such as "black on black crime", or "police war on blacks". It is unjustified and without merit to focus on cases by race, just as it would be to focus on cases by height, by baldness, or by freckle count. It's too arbitrary.
Their methodology and their theory is completely wrong, and it would do us well not to fall into the same trap.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: chrismarco
None of that changes anything if the kids don't want to learn.
The disdain for education is deeply ingrained.
You are a blamer I can see. Its the blacks and their culture.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: luthier
Oh, please, stop with that.
We can do all those things. I'm not saying to not do them, but unless those things are met halfway, they won't work.
Build a beautiful school. Good start. But unless the kids come in ready to learn and with parents who support the idea they should be learning. It won't matter. That's my point.
We can do the first part, but only the people in question can take care of the second half. Do you or do you not disagree with that?
Or are we somehow supposed to force kids to come to school ready to learn when they do not have home lives conducive to this? Those are cultural things that need to be addressed and it cannot be compelled from outside actors.
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: ketsuko
So you are saying being poor is a cultural thing?
So basically your admitting we creates a cast system. Have you ever read about the effects of the war on poverty and the war on drugs?