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Discomfort is necessary to bring change, protesters say
Boston Globe ^ | 1/01/15 | Evan Allen

Posted on 01/01/2015 6:17:20 AM PST by Libloather

Brenden LaRosa showed up to protest during First Night festivities with a message: Americans must talk to each other about race and policing, no matter how hard — or how unpopular — the conversation is.

“We almost want people to feel uncomfortable. Then you’re forced to answer this question, and you’re forced to question the way you feel about it,” said the 19-year-old from Everett, who joined other demonstrators Wednesday evening in Copley Square.

He estimated that he has been to five protests against the recent grand jury decisions not to indict white officers who killed unarmed black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo. “We don’t want you to walk by and think you didn’t see anything.”

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; boston; idiots; perps; protest
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To: Libloather

Brenden must be pretty stupid to have to estimate attending five protests.


21 posted on 01/01/2015 6:41:10 AM PST by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I love this!


22 posted on 01/01/2015 6:43:13 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Libloather

What to bring to break up Occutard Communist protests:

1. Bar of soap

2. Febreze

3. Job application


23 posted on 01/01/2015 6:43:40 AM PST by twister881
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To: Libloather

Americans must talk to each other about race and policing, no matter how hard — or how unpopular — the conversation is.


There are some unintended consequences here, the truth might come out. We are talking about it here at FR.


24 posted on 01/01/2015 6:44:07 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

LOL....excellent!


25 posted on 01/01/2015 6:44:11 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Libloather
“We don’t want you to walk by and think you didn’t see anything.”

These clowns have been marching around Copley Square for about a month, or since college got out. No one pays much attention to them, except the media.

26 posted on 01/01/2015 6:44:28 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Don Corleone

It must be, What is certain is that’s where most of them are headed.


27 posted on 01/01/2015 6:45:08 AM PST by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: Libloather

I don’t know who Brenden LaRosa is, and I don’t give thin S about him, either, but he and his ilk don’t quit trying to make everything about their stupid race, they’re not gonna like how it turns out for them. We see what they’re doing, and fomenting race war is sedition in every book I know, and the penalty is not light. Shut up, jackwad...


28 posted on 01/01/2015 6:45:55 AM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: sr4402

Have you ever wondered why these vermin have slogans and poses? ... They are so stupid that a community organizer has to teach them how to be offensive.


29 posted on 01/01/2015 6:47:32 AM PST by MHGinTN
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To: Libloather

It’s funny how, in the discomfort of poverty, the idea to change their own situation through study and hard work rarely occurs to them.


30 posted on 01/01/2015 6:47:53 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Don Corleone
The left is always uncomfortable. It must be hell to be them.

And, with their effort to bring everyone down to their level, they are proof that misery does, in fact, love company...

31 posted on 01/01/2015 6:49:07 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Libloather

And the way THEY would have US talk to them?? They break windows, loot, kill policemen, start buildings on fire, threaten newspapermen? In response, I will assume they’d like US to ‘use our words.’??? Never going to happen.


32 posted on 01/01/2015 6:49:40 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Libloather
Discomfort is necessary to bring change, protesters say

We can agree on that.

What we do not agree on is who will discomfort whom.

The looters, arsonists, cop-killers and run of the mill Gibs-Me-Dats have started something that won't turn out the way they would like.

They need to read their history - Pioneers almost always get all the arrows.


33 posted on 01/01/2015 6:49:50 AM PST by Iron Munro (Conservative Epitaph: Don't Cry For Me , You Still Have Two More Years Of Obama)
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To: Libloather

It’s not that they are there, but that they are WRONG. They aren’t protesting the incredibly far more black on black crimes? Then get outta my face and outta my cities.


34 posted on 01/01/2015 6:50:12 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann)
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To: Libloather
no matter how hard — or how unpopular — the conversation is

BS! The first time you say ANYTHING these people don't want to hear, they shut you down by screaming RACIST! and HATER!

35 posted on 01/01/2015 6:52:56 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Pearls Before Swine
It's other people's discomfort--ours--that they are talking about. They want US to be uncomfortable so we'll change to suit them.

Just this morning I read a story out of Ann Arbor about a restaurant owner who was severely beaten and robbed a while back. The story fawns over the restaurant owners in the area who are "bravely" standing up by closing before sundown.

Ann Arbor, land of the Eloi.
36 posted on 01/01/2015 6:56:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Libloather

Small militant rabble versus the largest militia on the planet. Sucks that the left never learned the magic of “math”...


37 posted on 01/01/2015 7:02:20 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: sr4402
"Americans must talk to each other about race and policing..."

Scrap that social engineering and lets talk about obeying the law and enforcing the law for everyone!

38 posted on 01/01/2015 7:04:53 AM PST by yoe
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To: Libloather
Brenden LaRosa showed up to protest during First Night festivities with a message: Americans must talk to each other about race and policing, no matter how hard — or how unpopular — the conversation is.

People who say that are disingenuous. They would scream, "racism!" at you 30 seconds into such an honest conversation.

39 posted on 01/01/2015 7:12:49 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Libloather

“We almost want people to feel uncomfortable. Then you’re forced to answer this question, and you’re forced to question the way you feel about it,”

Which gives the well-informed Conservative in your circle the opening to start throwing some facts into the conversation, at which point liberals and socialists lose. I’m liking this plan!


40 posted on 01/01/2015 7:15:58 AM PST by Amity
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