Shrimpbox
Gold Member
I haven’t even heard whether the George Floyd killing was racially motivated. What is true is that that policeman should not have been on the force, and that the black police Chief was not on watch and did not train a competent police force.
science does not seem to be important when talking about race but last year 9 unarmed black Men were killed by police and 18 unarmed white men were killed by police. That is not systemic racism. Quite honestly I am sick of the phrase we need to have a conversation about race. Their is nothing left to say, I have heard it all. Procedures and rules are in place to make policing fairer and are not being followed in almost every case of police brutality. And please spare me multi millionaire black commentators saying there is no opportunity for black people, all white people are racist, and we have not addressed the issues of 50 years ago. On CNBC some slick black lady said there are no black faces in Silicon Valley, ok darling there are no Indians in the nba, just stop with this false reasoning.
few here will agree with me on the waning of racism but what everyone is missing is that these protests are about young people, minorities, and even the middle class are tired of the deck being stacked against them. The perfect storm of virus, unemployment, home Quarantine, police brutality, and the beginning of summer have come together to allow the powerless to show their frustration with the system. There are more white people protesting than black and all these people have legitimate reasons for anger at the system. The economy is not fair, the laws favor the corporations, the system indebts the young forever, and the very rich are getting immorally richer. This is the ticking time bomb that is the real reason for such demonstrations. Bernie Sanders was a harbinger of these problems but conservative and republicans ignore this movement at their own risk. Something needs to be done to return capitalism to its non corrupted form. Constant gifts of Taxpayer money to mammoth corporations when 40 million people are out of work is not What America should be about. Both parties had better wake up and look around because the longer they continue to not work for the American people the closer they are bringing us all to the symbolic guillotine.
science does not seem to be important when talking about race but last year 9 unarmed black Men were killed by police and 18 unarmed white men were killed by police. That is not systemic racism. Quite honestly I am sick of the phrase we need to have a conversation about race. Their is nothing left to say, I have heard it all. Procedures and rules are in place to make policing fairer and are not being followed in almost every case of police brutality. And please spare me multi millionaire black commentators saying there is no opportunity for black people, all white people are racist, and we have not addressed the issues of 50 years ago. On CNBC some slick black lady said there are no black faces in Silicon Valley, ok darling there are no Indians in the nba, just stop with this false reasoning.
few here will agree with me on the waning of racism but what everyone is missing is that these protests are about young people, minorities, and even the middle class are tired of the deck being stacked against them. The perfect storm of virus, unemployment, home Quarantine, police brutality, and the beginning of summer have come together to allow the powerless to show their frustration with the system. There are more white people protesting than black and all these people have legitimate reasons for anger at the system. The economy is not fair, the laws favor the corporations, the system indebts the young forever, and the very rich are getting immorally richer. This is the ticking time bomb that is the real reason for such demonstrations. Bernie Sanders was a harbinger of these problems but conservative and republicans ignore this movement at their own risk. Something needs to be done to return capitalism to its non corrupted form. Constant gifts of Taxpayer money to mammoth corporations when 40 million people are out of work is not What America should be about. Both parties had better wake up and look around because the longer they continue to not work for the American people the closer they are bringing us all to the symbolic guillotine.