bobthedug
Well-Known Member
This gives you some idea of what sort of person she is.
What a horror. Calls the guy a Coon and is exasperated at his suggestion that she is racially abusing him!
Delightful!
This gives you some idea of what sort of person she is.
This gives you some idea of what sort of person she is.
Looks like they were unhappy at not getting an invite to the party.Police hunt 'four young black men' over shooting of 'Black Panther of Oxford' Sasha Johnson: Gang 'wearing dark clothes' burst into Peckham party at 3am and opened fire - as officers reiterate it was NOT a 'targeted attack'
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Police hunt 'four black men' over shooting of Sasha Johnson
Commander Alison Heydari has made an appeal for anyone who knows the identity of the shooters to come forward - but insisted that there was no evidence the BLM activist was the true target.www.dailymail.co.uk
Wrong way round me old pal.It died when the Police Force became the Police "Service".
I take the point about sweeping generalisations. It just seems to me that when you take the disadvantages of three centuries of violent abduction and enslavement, a century of insult and segregation, decades in which the leaders of the Civil Rights movement were spied on, harrassed and assassinated, current statistics that show young black men many times more likely to end up as prison inmates or homicide victims than any other sector of the population, and none of the people in charge under Trump or most of his predecessors showing any determination to fix this other than by ramping up the intensity of armed policing, topped off by an entrenched sense of impunity in Law Enforcement that permits an officer slowly to murder a black man in full view of multiple witnesses, it's not unreasonable for the people identified with that accumulation of events to feel some actual racial outrage.
You are right that there will be people wrapping themselves in the flag of that outrage, or hiding under its cloak, to commit crimes for their personal gain and satisfaction. That said, I think when people turn to violence it is often because they feel that being passive is no longer bearable, and once violent acts are perpetrated they develop a cyclical momentum of their own from which any community struggles to escape. Some communities have staved off or escaped this cycle of violence, but that's very different from saying that they haven't received daily indications that many of their fellow citizens, drawing on the injustices of the past and the prejudices of the present, regard them as less than full citizens, and even as less than fully human.
I'm not saying that I have any idea how to fix this, but it clearly needs fixing, and whilst the choice to turn one's back on that need because a movement has some unpleasant fellow travellers, let alone because you feel excluded by its slogan, may be open to a variety of interpretations, I can't see that any of them offer much to be proud of.
Any small sympathy I may have had for her injuries has evaporatedThis gives you some idea of what sort of person she is.