I'll get back to you on all of this horseshit, but there's a lot of muck in this stall.Grandpa's Spells wrote:In these videos, what I typically see is a scenario in which a white kid doesn't get shot in the same situation. That 12-year-old that got shot 2 seconds after the cops arrive? I don't think that kid dies if he looks Swedish.The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:I'm gonna guess that for every 'cop shooting an unarmed black man' video that's out there, there are two of cops shooting unarmed white guys. There's just not as much sizzle in chatting about that.I think you are conflating two distinct issues: police-on-civilian shootings with black-on-black shootings. They're different, and they're addressed differently.Black Lives Matter is a FARSE. Disgusting that anyone even entertains that movement given they don't recognize all of the black lives that die at the hands of other blacks (which as you know, far outweighs death by whitey or badge). They prey on weak minds and are fucking douchebags on par with Sharpton, period.
The black on black crime stuff tends to get addressed locally by churches and what not. When I was in Rogers Park there were "take back the streets" rallies and community members occupying drug corners all the time. This doesn't get much media coverage, but that shit happens all the time. And there are all the related problems. When people, especially innocent people, get murdered, and nobody says anything to the cops, that's some shit that is on the community. They're going to have to stand up.
OTOH, when the government is shooting people, that's a different story. That's a civil rights issue, and your'e going to get different people involved. This is why I never really cared for the "Why isn't Jesse/Sharpton spending protesting this black on white crime or problems the community faces?" I dislike those two, but asking civil rights advocates why they aren't also working on non-civil-rights issues is like asking why isn't the NRA also working on international landmine injuries? Because it's a totally different job.
BLM is not primarily concerned with crime in black communities. It's concerned with the inequity in how society treats the murders of black vs. white people. That one came up when Trayvon Martin got shot. Now, maybe if a white blonde kid with family in the neighborhood got shot by George Zimmerman, the cops wouldn't have arrested him either. But a lot of people have doubts about that, and videos of cops killing black people where a white guy probably wouldn't get shot sees to back that up.Fucking St. Louis.Spells, you lived in St. Louie as did I for 6 months. Know what? Fuck those unemployed assholes running around those streets in Ferguson. For every liquor store looting asshole Wolf Blitzer shows you on CNN there are probably 5-6 good, decent, (black) people who are absolutely ashamed of those mopes. But you'll hear nothing of those folks on the news.
St. Louis has a history of pretty terrible treatment of its black citizenry. It's possible the guys I went to school with who were all "nigger this" and "nigger that" are now 40 and are perfectly willing to hire a black candidate, and I've seen some people on FB grow up to be exactly that, though they're not the majority. That sort of undercuts the "It's all on their problem." There's a history of black moving to a neighborhood (East St. Louis) racist whites moving out, and then blaming the black for the economic collapse. Whites and blacks in St. Louis don't get along, and there's a whole lot of conforming to stereotype there, on both sides.
Frankly, for the black people there, their only option is to move or deal with it. And if they deal with it by fucking up their communities, then they're going to be shit out of luck indefinitely.
That is a different problem than it being OK for shitheels like the Ferguson police department to abuse the shit out of those people, which is exactly what they were doing, Michael Brown completely aside (as that was ruled justified with forensic evidence backing it up).
And it's not just happening in Ferguson. That cop that murdered the motorist got fired and charged, but the other two cops on the scene backed up his version of events, and AFAIK haven't been charged or fired as accomplices. That makes it look like a systemic problem that warrants protesting.
tl/dr I don't think the legitimate complaint they have is de-legitimized because they aren't as loudly also addressing black-on-black crime, stop snitching, single-parent families, teen pregnancy, calling high achievers "acting white" or whatever else plagues the urban black poor (and FFS this gets talked about a lot, but doesn't make good TV) simultaneously and on television. Getting murdered by your government is a legitimate thing to complain loudly about.
Michael Brown, Ferguson Missouri
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