BLM Protests Across The World

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[Schlosser85]

He was incredibly stupid to wear that in public as a fire chief.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

They are this stupid in public and have been for so long, and yet we are still here.

 

[Micromind]

Fire department functions as rescue force, it's function is to save all lives, I cannot understand how a person like that is a chief of that department.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

He was incredibly stupid to wear that in public as a fire chief.

Definitely the issue.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Everyone is shook. Good.

Sources: U.S. Soccer to reconsider kneeling ban

 

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[Sithborg]

The Seattle protest almost turned bad.

Live: Seattle-area protests: Live updates for Sunday, June 7

Guy drives car into protesters. Shoots a protester in the arm that comes to his window. Then walks to the police line. Apparently, the white guy who shot someone can approach the police line without response from the police.

 

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The Seattle protest almost turned bad.

Live: Seattle-area protests: Live updates for Sunday, June 7

Guy drives car into protesters. Shoots a protester in the arm that comes to his window. Then walks to the police line. Apparently, the white guy who shot someone can approach the police line without response from the police.

Compare that to the overwhelming number of videos we've seen for a week where the cops dog pile on folk who just breath in their general direction.

 

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[Sithborg]

I mean, thats not great during a pandemic, but people are showing up in numbers that are quite impressive.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

And on both issues the solution is just... Competence.

The authorities don't need to be literal super heroes. Just don't be so ****ing inept. That was the case with the virus. It's the case with the police brutality issue.

 

[chamber-music]

My fear is if we remove racist related monuments that newer generations won't know about our history and how racist our country used to be and will be doomed to repeat some mistakes. Remember some schools were glossing over the Nazis and Hitler when teaching WW2 before Trump took office.

We have museums and schools to educate future generations of our ancestors horrific actions. The problem is schools have not been doing a great job and history is being rewritten by racist sympathizers. You only need to look at the Confederacy defenders who have spent years down playing slavery as a cause and re-branding the American Civil War as being about states rights.

I don't think children of any color need to live in towns and cities with monuments to bigots to understand the mistakes of history. Kids in Germany and Austria don't need to statues of Hitler and his Nazis leadership to understand they did awful things.

Even with all these statues to racist's history has still been whitewashed. A lot of people didn't even realize the Tulsa/Black Wall Street massacre was a real event when it was depicted in HBO's Watchmen.

A lot of white Americans have still never heard of the red summer of 1919 or sundown towns or Emmett Till or Jim Crow laws or 16th street baptist church bombings or the Republicans southern strategy or the Tuskegee Syphilis testing or the Pigford v. Glickman black farmers lawsuit or the Red shirts and white league. The list goes on and on.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

For those that don't understand the idea behind defund/dissolve the police, watch tonight's John Oliver. Also for those who seemed most concerned with the "looting" and "rioting", you can watch just the last few minutes. I think it really puts it all into perspective.

 

[Marvolo]

I mean, thats not great during a pandemic, but people are showing up in numbers that are quite impressive.

Impressive is a massive understatement. It would take serious firepower to subdue a crowd that size which is something the LAPD should really think about before they push the people to the point where no ****s are given.

I wonder if it makes Army and National Guard a little nervous seeing that many Americans united.

P.S. I hope Trump is in his bunker jealous about the size of that crowd.

#CrowdEnvy

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

And on both issues the solution is just... Competence.

The authorities don't need to be literal super heroes. Just don't be so ****ing inept. That was the case with the virus. It's the case with the police brutality issue.

Better screening is needed when interviewing at the very least...

 

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Torn down slave trader statue 'was an affront'

 

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NYPD Officers at George Floyd Protests Are Covering Their Badge Numbers in Violation of Own Policy

 

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[terry78]

Maybe all those vigilante superheroes we've seen over the years weren't exactly the ones who had it wrong.

 

[MadVillainy]

My fear is if we remove racist related monuments that newer generations won't know about our history and how racist our country used to be and will be doomed to repeat some mistakes. Remember some schools were glossing over the Nazis and Hitler when teaching WW2 before Trump took office.

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For all the years the statues were up, people still weren't really educated on how racist our country was/is.
For all the years that statues were upm America has repeated its same mistakes. Not another slave trade (although an argument can be made for how the for profit prison system works), but a lot of same racist mistakes were made despite the "history" happening not even 100 years ago

A lot of schools, even in the North, still barely teach anything about slavery. Malcolm X is still only taught as that totally radical guy who was the opposite of MLKJr. Black issues and leaders are still primarily only taught for a month tops in February. And moving along from just black issues: America's treatment of Native Americans, America's treatment of East Asians and internment camps in the early-mid 40s, LGBTQ leaders and events, Hispanic and Latino events and leaders, etc. are still not taught enough in schools. And sometimes not taught at all. Again, this was all happening while the statues are/were up.

So the whole "we need to keep the statues up for history" or "what if newer generations won't know history if the statues are gone" is nonsense to me. When the statues were there a lot of people still didn't know the history. Work on diversifying what is taught in schools and don't regulate a certain groups contributions to this country's history largely to a specific month.

 

[Schlosser85]

My fear is if we remove racist related monuments that newer generations won't know about our history and how racist our country used to be and will be doomed to repeat some mistakes. Remember some schools were glossing over the Nazis and Hitler when teaching WW2 before Trump took office.

My manager and I talked about that yesterday and thought relocating the statues to a museum or something to that effect would be a good compromise.

 

[MadVillainy]

I certainly wish we have more good cop stories. I’ve been burned before though when we saw a lot of posts about the cops kneeling in solidarity only to go back to hurting protesters once the pictures have been taken.

There really should be less police brutality now that the looting seem to have stopped...

Looting made up such a small percentage of what was happening (in fact the title of this thread should probably be changed). For all the talk about looting, as Darth pointed out you don't have a lot of footage of cops stopping actual looters. Police are really out there being abusive to people who are being peacfeful

Museum of Intolerance.

Not a bad idea at all

I suspect it's like most things where the few bad ones get all the publicity and make the majority of the good ones look just as bad.

The problem with that is a lot of the "good" cops still don't hold the bad cops accountable. That's why some treat the whole "good cop" thing as a myth, because how good are you when you're pretty complicit to a system that is inherently racist and complicit to fellow officers who are brutalizing people.

 

[MadVillainy]

Also, daily reminder that the officers who killed Breonna Taylor are still free

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Again, Atun-Shei films on YT has a great take on the monuments arguments.