BLM activist shot in London - appalling

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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'​

Looks like they were unhappy at not getting an invite to the party.
 
Do the people in the US descended from slaves honestly wish that slavery hadn't happened?
 
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.

Black people in the u.s need to get the f**k over it and take some personal responsibility.
Everything has to be someone else's fault. Never theirs.

Sure there's problems but there's no more handouts they can have to fix it.
Black people have been heroes in music entertainment sports and general pop culture for at least 40 years. Whitey isn't keeping them down, they are doing it to themselves.
BLM? yeah James Brown was constantly trying to tell black people that for decades but they don't listen.
 
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Sasha's family must be in tears ... I mean like, REAL tears as a consequence of the Police releasing a statement clearly indicating that the suspects are 4 x young BLACK men. Where is that elusive, middle-aged white guy with a gun from Suburbia when you really need him? No cult hero status, no compensation, no martyr-type adoration for Ms Johnson I'm afraid. No ... this incident will just fade away simply because it doesn't fit the BLM narrative in any way, shape or form. Oh dear, how sad, never mind :rofl:

Jamsie
 
Ok this thread has gone far enough. Some of the remarks on here are not worthy of this site and its members. Its not a laughing when an attempted murder or accident has taken place.
 
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