Reality: Three Black Men, and Choices.

[Andylusion]

This picture and caption was so good, I had to post it. This is the reality in this country.

Racism is not the problem in America. Choices are the problem. You choose to be a criminal, and you end up in the third position.

Black Lives Matter should be disbanned. They need a Black Choices Matter movement, that educates Black people, that the choices they make in life, determine their life.

 

[Moonglow]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

 

[Rocko]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

Cops don’t kill criminals enough. The left has made policing a million times more difficult than it should be.

 

[Moonglow]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

Cops don’t kill criminals enough. The left has made policing a million times more difficult than it should be.

Ain't life a bitch for the weak and lazy....

 

[DukeU]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

And that's why the cop was arrested and charged.

 

[Rocko]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

Cops don’t kill criminals enough. The left has made policing a million times more difficult than it should be.

Ain't life a bitch for the weak and lazy....

you speak from experience, I know.

 

[John T. Ford]

Ain't life a bitch for the weak and lazy....

Considering just how many criminals are in our prison system .... I would say the answer to your response is YES

 

[Moonglow]

Ain't life a bitch for the weak and lazy....

Considering just how many criminals are in our prison system .... I would say the answer to your response is YES

Damn that Roger Stone.

 

[eddiew]

One more time. In case it’s still unclear.

400 years ago white people brought black people over here and enslaved them. And sold them. And treated them as less than human. For 250 years. While white men built the country and created its laws and its systems of government. While 10, 15 generations of white families got to grow and flourish and make choices that could make their lives better.

And then 150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery. But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote. Or to own land. Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved. All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.

And then, while it was "legal" for black people to vote, many voter-suppression measures were put in place to prevent that vote from occurring or counting. Also 60 years ago our society "removed" discrimination based on race. But angry white people still fought to keep schools segregated. And closed off neighborhoods to white people only. And made it harder for black people to get bank loans, or get a quality education or health care, or to (gasp) marry a white person. All while another 2-3 generations of white families got to grow and pass their wealth down to their children and their children's children.
And then we entered an age where we had the technology to make PUBLIC the things that were already happening in private-- the beatings, the stop and frisk laws, the unequal distribution of justice, the police brutality (police began in America as slave patrols designed to catch runaway slaves). And only now, after 400+ years and 20+ generations of a white head start, are we STARTING to truly have a dialog about what it means to be black.
White privilege doesn't mean you haven't suffered or fought or worked hard. It doesn't mean white people are responsible for the sins of our ancestors. It doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of who you are.
It DOES mean that we need to acknowledge that the system our ancestors created is built FOR white people.
It DOES mean that we aren't disadvantaged because of the color of our skin and it DOES mean that we owe it to our neighbors-- of all colors-- to acknowledge that and work to make our world more equitable.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!

 

[John T. Ford]

One more time. In case it’s still unclear.

400 years ago white people brought black people over here and enslaved them. And sold them. And treated them as less than human. For 250 years. While white men built the country and created its laws and its systems of government. While 10, 15 generations of white families got to grow and flourish and make choices that could make their lives better.

And then 150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery. But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote. Or to own land. Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved. All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.

And then, while it was "legal" for black people to vote, many voter-suppression measures were put in place to prevent that vote from occurring or counting. Also 60 years ago our society "removed" discrimination based on race. But angry white people still fought to keep schools segregated. And closed off neighborhoods to white people only. And made it harder for black people to get bank loans, or get a quality education or health care, or to (gasp) marry a white person. All while another 2-3 generations of white families got to grow and pass their wealth down to their children and their children's children.
And then we entered an age where we had the technology to make PUBLIC the things that were already happening in private-- the beatings, the stop and frisk laws, the unequal distribution of justice, the police brutality (police began in America as slave patrols designed to catch runaway slaves). And only now, after 400+ years and 20+ generations of a white head start, are we STARTING to truly have a dialog about what it means to be black.
White privilege doesn't mean you haven't suffered or fought or worked hard. It doesn't mean white people are responsible for the sins of our ancestors. It doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of who you are.
It DOES mean that we need to acknowledge that the system our ancestors created is built FOR white people.
It DOES mean that we aren't disadvantaged because of the color of our skin and it DOES mean that we owe it to our neighbors-- of all colors-- to acknowledge that and work to make our world more equitable.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!

 

[Norman]

Being a criminal still doesn't give the cops the right to kill you..No matter what colors are involved..

Such rights only exist in your delusions.

Even the Floyd case is not clear, he had two times the lethal Fentanyl does in his system... no wonder he could not breath.