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originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: Boscowashisnamo
a reply to: Bloodydagger
If the roles were reversed, BLM, Al and Jesse would be calling for their heads...
(A) Someone found a youtube video of angry teens acting tough?...call CNN
(B) The roles were reversed...except it was every single racist hillbilly during President Obama's run for office and the right wing called it "free speech"..
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: MystikMushroom
Why? Who shoulders the blame for those negative interactions and what has precipitated them?
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: Boscowashisnamo
a reply to: Bloodydagger
If the roles were reversed, BLM, Al and Jesse would be calling for their heads...
(A) Someone found a youtube video of angry teens acting tough?...call CNN
(B) The roles were reversed...except it was every single racist hillbilly during President Obama's run for office and the right wing called it "free speech"..
That right there!
Is called an "effigy"!!!!
a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
originally posted by: Indigo5
Or is it your premise that since some African Americans are engaged in criminal activity, that all should be suspect and treated as potential criminals?
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: Indigo5
Or is it your premise that since some African Americans are engaged in criminal activity, that all should be suspect and treated as potential criminals?
it is my position that most of the high profile incidents that lead to the formation of #BlackLivesMatter didn't involve choir boys.
Imagine for a moment, what would happen if a group of white kids made a video saying they were going to kill Obama.
While the song is overtly threatening in nature (it warns Trump not to come to Baltimore “unless you want to die, though”), the lyrics also contain a schoolyard-insults spirit (“Boy ain’t even white / you yellow! / You said you’d date your own daughter / You a sicko!”). Ibrahim said the song's threats of violence against Trump were not literal or even serious. "We didn't mean no harm by it," Ibrahim said. "We don't got no damn chopper! My religion says don't even kill. I wouldn't kill an innocent fly." Ibrahim, a Muslim, said he was partly inspired to do the song because of Trump's comments on wanting to monitor mosques.
The song began as a 28-second video upload on March 15, when Ibrahim and his friends performed it live in a car and filmed the footage for Twitter. It included an unprintable hashtag denouncing Trump, and has earned more than 11,000 retweets.
The quick success led Dooley to ask, “Rt if you think we should make [it] into a real song?” On Sunday, the finished version and video were online. Ibrahim said this would be his first and only rap song.
When asked whom he'd like to see as the next president, Ibrahim said Bernie Sanders was "cool."
"To be honest, I just want a good person," he said. "I don't really pay attention to it. I just be hearing all of the stuff Trump be saying."
Or is it your premise that since some African Americans are engaged in criminal activity, that all should be suspect and treated as potential criminals?
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: Boscowashisnamo
a reply to: Bloodydagger
If the roles were reversed, BLM, Al and Jesse would be calling for their heads...
(A) Someone found a youtube video of angry teens acting tough?...call CNN
(B) The roles were reversed...except it was every single racist hillbilly during President Obama's run for office and the right wing called it "free speech"..
That right there!
Is called an "effigy"!!!!
a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
Ahh...And I suppose these were just words of encouragement?
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: seeker1963
Well. If we're going to be technical, that's not an effigy. An effigy specifically refers to a representation of a person.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
Hillbilly is a term (often derogatory) for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in Appalachia and the Ozarks Uwharrie Mountains and Caraway Mountains. Due to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term can be offensive to those Americans of Appalachian or Ozark heritage.
originally posted by: Indigo5
It is my position that none of us are choir boys, except for actual choir boys. Get past that conceit and go from there.