BLM Protests Across The World

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

Given the current political climate I just realized something: the highest grossing movie of 2020 so far is Bad Boys 3, which centers on black police officers.

Now just think about that for a second: The current highest grossing movie of the year is about Black cops.

There’s something kind of funny about that in a twisted way. Granted, obviously, given how the pandemic has stalled the movie industry I know that movie is only the default king of the box office, but I can’t help but find this fact strangely humorous nonetheless.

Just one of my many useless observations.

I don't think it's a useless observation at all. It actually makes me think of larger issues regarding the prevalence of black cops in movies.

I think it's common to see black cops and government authority figures like judges in Hollywood movies because these characters are seen as less threatening. A black man with a gun is seen as a potential threat to the status quo: a black man with a gun and a badge is not. Rather, he is a defender of the status quo.

Look at Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, a movie that was made in 1984. Young Murphy was a firebrand who said things in his standup that could come off as threatening to white Americans at the time, but the fact that he played a cop in his biggest hit movie played a reassuring role. Look at Ice-T, who came to fame with a song called "Cop Killer" but has found success playing cops in movies and TV. Look at Ice Cube, who started out with songs like "**** Tha Police" but now frequently plays cops in movies like Ride Along and 21 Jump Street. Figures who were once seen as threatening to the existing order are co-opted and the threat they represent is neutralized by turning them into harmless authority figures.

There's also the fact that even after the civil rights movement, when black actors started to demand better parts than butlers or maids, the lead characters of these movies tended to be white. Casting black actors as cops, judges, etc. allowed filmmakers to say they have black cast members while the focus remained on white actors.

 

[Sithborg]

Another Confederate statue went down in Raleigh. And you know what, I approve of what they did with it.

 

[Zorro]

Some white folks will be appalled and **** without thinking why it was done this way. Symbolism!..or pay back too with tables turned

 

[Lily Adler]

Some white folks will be appalled and **** without thinking why it was done this way. Symbolism!..or pay back too with tables turned

Well we just had several black people who were most probably lynched.

 

[Zorro]

Well we just had several black people who were most probably lynched.

Exactly but some won't see the connection or want to see it. I just know some will be like how dare they!

Fox News will have a field day

 

[Sithborg]

Well we just had several black people who were most probably lynched.

Yeah, I suspect the Klan in law enforcement are tired of hiding...

 

[Zorro]

Sad it could be either one

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

Exactly but some won't see the connection or want to see it. I just know some will be like how dare they!

Fox News will have a field day

Caring more about statues being "lynched" than real people being lynched isn't a great look as far as the vast majority of the population is concerned. Fox News is welcome to make that bed and lie in it.

 

[Zorro]

Caring more about statues being "lynched" than real people being lynched isn't a great look as far as the vast majority of the population is concerned. Fox News is welcome to make that bed and lie in it.

True that!

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Yeah, I suspect the Klan in law enforcement are tired of hiding...

This is so appalling and disgusting, I truly have no words to describe my horror and outrage...
Add to that the obvious antipathy of the police to investigate.

 

[Sithborg]

Here's hoping Tulsa is quiet today, though I do not trust how the racists have been acting recently.

 

[Detective Conan]

Sadly, the former officer will likely be reaping in hundreds of thousands of dollars. If the man who killed George Floyd can crowdfund his million dollar bail, this guy will be making a fortune.

Case in point: Darren Wilson, the officer who murdered Mike Brown, raised over half a million on GofundMe.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I can't even wrap my head around that for a milli-second.

"These guys killed someone for no reason and now the stupid libs are mad, can you even believe it?! Send them your money NOW!

It is insane the people I've seen on social media defending the guy and acting like it's the great social cause of their time to protect the police's "right" to shoot people in the back. I saw some people actually saying the cop "didn't know what weapon Rayshard had" when it was his own freaking taser! And then lots of nonsense about how "cops are the only thing keeping us from anarchy, they'll quit if we start telling them what to do!"

 

[Zorro]

That **** annoying and pissing me off is an understatement. Discraced cops like that shouldn't qualify for being crowd funded and more than one person donating blows my mind but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

One of the cops involved in the George Floyd murder case being released on bail and done so by crowd funding is a damn Injustice!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Five years ago.


Seems like a lifetime.

Still... If one wonders how frustration can boil over to something else, well... Look at how there was so little across the board action motivated by all the outrage from the cases from five years ago. Even when things do get moving there was and is a mindset spread through both the populace and those in politics and law enforcement to concede nothing and oppose any meaningful reforms.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Again... Five years back.



Doomed to repeat it...

 

[Detective Conan]

Trump’s worst pulling out blunder after Don Jr. trashed the BLM protesters.

 

[Zorro]

A rally of hate, ignorance and racism going on!

 

[Marvolo]

I'll never get over the fact that Jon Stewart retired from the Daily Show right before the 2016 Presidential race. We needed him during the Trump presidency. We need him during this fight against the thugs in blue.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[Lily Adler]

I'll never get over the fact that Jon Stewart retired from the Daily Show right before the 2016 Presidential race. We needed him during the Trump presidency. We need him during this fight against the thugs in blue.

Trevor, John Oliver, Stephen, and Sam are good, but I miss Stewart.

 

[Sithborg]

Bets on the people painting the blue line are cops?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Bets on the people painting the blue line are cops?

You'd get better odds on Trump beating Amanda Nunes.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Trevor, John Oliver, Stephen, and Sam are good, but I miss Stewart.

They all have very different. I enjoy watching them all now, especially Oliver. But Stewart brought a different energy that I can't really describe. I still watch some of his classic segments every once in a while.

Also he has now made a film with Rose Byrne. So he is automatically the GOAT.