BLM Protests Across The World

[Lily Adler]

Since when has Barbara Steisand had Disney connections?

That woman was rubbing elbows with Hollywood elite since the Golden Age with the likes of Judy Garland.

 

[C. Lee]

To make it perfectly clear....this article is from last year.....but it showcases the thoughts of Republican leaders Mitch McConnell: Barack Obama's election paid for 'sin of slavery'

 

[Sithborg]

That woman was rubbing elbows with Hollywood elite since the Golden Age with the likes of Judy Garland.

I mean, you only need $115 to become a shareholder.

 

[Lily Adler]

I mean, you only need $115 to become a shareholder.

Eh. Still Babs has connections.

 

[Zorro]

California officials probe 2 separate hanging deaths of Black men

That's insane and so sad. No signs of foul play but yet two black men hanged from trees in California? Just cases that just happened to be coincidence suicides? Wtf

 

[Sithborg]

That's insane and so sad. No signs of foul play but yet two black men hanged from trees in California? Just cases that just happened to be coincidence suicides? Wtf

I mean, if you trust the cops...

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Zarex]

After seeing the history and responses of these vile thugs the unions have voted into leadership - Kroll in Minneapolis, O'Meara in NYC and this piece of garbage - I'm getting on the DEFUND bandwagon. Many of these FOPs are criminal enterprises no different than the Mafia and the Teamsters and need to be disbanded.

 

[kvz5]

 

[Zorro]

There's a lot of apologizing going on after ****ing up but mostly just because they were caught or received overwhelming backlash

 

[Zarex]

I suspect Ms. Alexander supports the correct causes, votes for progressive candidates and shakes her fist furiously at her TV when watching scenes of police brutality and cruelty towards immigrants. Yet she can't muster up even a modicum of courtesy for a neighbor who she believes doesn't fit into her neighborhood. These types are every bit as bad as the red hats.

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

After seeing the history and responses of these vile thugs the unions have voted into leadership - Kroll in Minneapolis, O'Meara in NYC and this piece of garbage - I'm getting on the DEFUND bandwagon. Many of these FOPs are criminal enterprises no different than the Mafia and the Teamsters and need to be disbanded.

Let's just be clear that there is a clear division between police unions and the rest of the labour movement.

To quote Leon Trotsky: "The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state is a bourgeois cop, not a worker."

 

[Sithborg]

I suspect Ms. Alexander supports the correct causes, votes for progressive candidates and shakes her fist furiously at her TV when watching scenes of police brutality and cruelty towards immigrants. Yet she can't muster up even a modicum of courtesy for a neighbor who she believes doesn't fit into her neighborhood. These types are every bit as bad as the red hats.

Yeah, there is a good bit of racism on the left.

 

[Lily Adler]

I suspect Ms. Alexander supports the correct causes, votes for progressive candidates and shakes her fist furiously at her TV when watching scenes of police brutality and cruelty towards immigrants. Yet she can't muster up even a modicum of courtesy for a neighbor who she believes doesn't fit into her neighborhood. These types are every bit as bad as the red hats.

 

[MadVillainy]

Was about to post this.
The daughter is never going broke again

 

[Iceman]

We don't have exactly the same problem but we have some very similar issues. UK police have used disproportionate force on innocent people at times (particularly black people).

Met officer under investigation after being filmed hitting boy

There was also a story recently on the news of a teenager on his phone who got dragged into a police van pinned down, hit and arrested (for resisting arrest claim the police). He got stripped searched, finger printed and had his DNA taken only to be released the next day without charge.

You may feel that way, but that doesn't mean those marching the streets do as well. You were talking about why people were protesting. They are telling us why they are doing it. And a big part of that is the racism in the UK, including the police.

The stats I posted show there is systematic racism in policing, unless the idea is that black people just deserve be stopped at a rate of nearly 10 times by the police in the UK version of stop and frisk. That is the very definition of systematic racism. Being "better" then the US in terms of systematic racism, doesn't make the situation good, though I'd argue the UK can't claim that when young men are walking to school carrying knives to protect themselves. I fundamentally disagree with the idea that as long as the police don't kill you, their constant harassment is okay.

The UK suffers from systematic racism in it's policing, because it is a country that suffers from systematic racism in general. Like with the US and Canada, you find it in the schools, the media, the government, the housing market, the police, etc. Boris going on television using buzz words to complain about protesters. Where far right groups are the norm and run for national office in the country. This is without getting into the incredibly racist history of the UK. The one still celebrated in that country to this day.

I respect you and your family's experience Iceman. But there are plenty in your country who do not feel the same. Here is how others are seeing it:

Thanks for the links guys. I will have a look at these tonight.

 

[Zorro]

Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau, Black Lives Matter Protester In Florida, Found Dead After Tweet About Sexual Assault

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau, Black Lives Matter Protester In Florida, Found Dead After Tweet About Sexual Assault

I saw this earlier on twitter. It's terrible. I hope law enforcement will be able to find out what happened to her. Because this sounds like a mystery novel at first glance.

 

[Zorro]

Calls to remove controversial Abraham Lincoln statue in Boston

How/why has this statue exist all this time?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Calls to remove controversial Abraham Lincoln statue in Boston

How/why has this statue exist all this time?

WTF is even going on in that statue?

 

[Zorro]

WTF is even going on in that statue?

Lincoln either had a slave that would clean his shoes while he wore them or he swung both ways..with slaves

 

[Schlosser85]

That statue looks.....inappropriate.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That statue looks.....inappropriate.

If Schlosser is calling it inappropriate, you knows it's really inappropriate.

 

[Schlosser85]

Lincoln either had a slave that would clean his shoes while he wore them or he swung both ways..with slaves

Why not both?